- Kim Davis, right, and Rose Preizier
Last year on Feb. 12, Kim Davis and Rose Preizier were married in a ceremony outside Dallas’ Records Building during a Freedom to Marry Day event staged by Queer LiberAction. The newlyweds, backed up by supporters from QL, then marched into the Records Building to request a marriage license.
They were denied the license, of course, since Texas has a constitutional amendment banning legal recognition of same-sex marriages.
The amendment is still on the books this year, but that won’t stop Queer LiberAction and Equality March Texas, two direct action groups that are working together to once again mark Freedom to Marry Day with a wedding and a march into the Records Building to demand a marriage license for the newly joined couple.
This year’s Freedom to Marry Day event starts at noon on Historical Plaza, outside the Records Building. And this year, it seems, the LGBT activists are going to have some unwelcome guests at the wedding.
According to an e-mail I received today from our good buddy “Pastor Joey” Faust of Kingdom Baptist Church in Mansfield, “Many Christians (including Kingdom Baptist Church, and Pastor Faust) are planning on protesting this wicked event.”
The e-mail goes on to explain that Christians “should be the light and salt of this world,” and that they are called on by the Bible to “hinder evil by reproving it and exposing it.” Pastor Joey also reminds readers that Kingdom Baptsit is the group that staged the counter-protest outside Fort Worth City Hall last year when LGBT activists gathered outside to encourage the City Council to vote for including protections for trans people in the city’s nondiscrimination ordinance, and that Kingdom Baptist was also “responsible for the Protest Gay Day event at the Texas Ranger’s stadium a few years ago.”
So, if you can, get down to Historical Plaza on Friday at noon and help make sure that the couple getting married that day have more well-wishers in the crowd than Pastor Joey and his group can muster up to try and ruin the day.
Let’s show Joey and company what a proud and resolute LGBT community N Texas has! Please join the Freedom to Marry Day facebook events page and share widely.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=657035486#!/event.php?eid=266669132665
Will CD Kirven be raising her voice for the occasion?
Thanks EMT for organizing this wonderful and necessary event! Please keep QL in line.
Wow, Carl. Are you always such a troll?
no, not at all.
LOL…it’s not EMT’s job to keep anyone in line….QL organized a successful event last year and EMT wanted to be a part of it. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it but organizations should be able to work to together to make each year better than the year before. I am glad QL asked us to join with them on this event. Weather permitting, it should be pretty awesome.
I am just concerned that the people involved keep themselves in line with the bible thumpers. QL is known to not always play by the rules. That worries me. I think that QL means well, they are just too angry and entitled. I do not see that with EMT.
Rev. Faust is “protesting this wicked event?” Hell Faust and his entourage ARE the wicked event.
If Christians are “the salt” then what am I? I’m thinking cardamon but I’ve been told I have a hint of nutmeggy flavor as well.
Freedom to Marry Day 2010 is still on despite possible inclement weather. Kay and Wendy’s wedding ceremony will begin at 12:00 PM on Friday at the Records Building (509 Main St). After the kiss and bouquet toss the couple with crown in tow will make it’s way to the Marriage License Office to place an application.
Here is a DVTV episode showing how these bullies roll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYVkZi5drNQ
I’d love to attend the event and present the happy couple (if they wish) an official marriage recognition certificate (not license) on behalf of the United Republic of Texas but we’re not officially out yet, we’re still an illegally occupied nation so we have to be careful, much more planning and organizing is needed before we’re completely ready to go public. But I did want y’all to know that there is a nation here that does not discriminate on the basis of religion, sex, etc. in recognizing marriage or any other family structure, as that’s not the gov’t’s business in the first place. Here’s an excerpt from our 14th Amendment, which you can find near the bottom of https://texas.freecountries.org/urt-con-amended-2008-08-29.html –
14. A. To avoid even accidently violating anyone’s rights under NAP [the Non-Aggression Principle], government must be totally secular and remain absolutely neutral and uninvolved in all matters involving religion. Freedom of religion also includes freedom from religion. Atheism and Agnosticism are religions too. In the 3rd numbered entry under the Declaration of Rights, “worship God” is hereby replaced by “worship (or not)” in order to clarify this. The sacred wall of separation between Church and State must never be violated. This includes issues regarding sex, sexual orientation/identity, marriage, … health, medication, diet, alcohol, drugs, suicide, education, commerce, and charity, as these things are not the concern of government.
B. However, to help protect the rights of those suffering from discrimination and oppression by foreign governments, HRT [now the URT] governments may issue certificates recognizing the validity of marriages upon request, as long as at least one party to the marriage recognizes the authority of the HRT to do so and honestly attests to the validity of the marriage under their personal beliefs. The HRT does not guarantee that any foreign government will respect the certificate.
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D. As time and qualified citizens are available, Congress shall develop a Diversity Committee consisting of citizen volunteers with as wide variety as possible of religions, sexes, sexual orientations, races, disabilities, and other categories as appropriate, striving especially to include members of those minorities which are the least understood and thus more likely to be discriminated against. These are bona fide requirements. This committee shall advise the Supreme Court to help avoid inadvertently overlooking any threat to the NAP rights of any individuals when considering Constitutional amendments, treaties, or other government action. The committee members are not to use this to push any particular agenda or to encourage or facilitate discrimination against others or violations of their rights. After the committee and its associated rules have been in effect (and adjusted as needed) for 3 months, they may be proposed as Constitutional amendments.
Note that this is not intended as a solicitation of any kind.
Disclaimer: The URT does not sanction or promote illegal activities and strives for peaceful coexistence with the US occupation government. Unlike various “Republic of Texas” factions out there, many of which are militant, extremist, and homophobic, we are not here to “take over Texas”, we are here to serve our own citizens, not to infringe upon anyone’s rights, we just want ours respected as well.
President, United Republic of Texas
https://texas.freecountries.org
Those guys are nutty! Be safe and stand proud. Thanks for all that you are doing! I am there in spirit!!! 🙂