The Houston Press is reporting that a Houston judge who was formerly a Republican announced he is now a Democrat, a decision he says he came to after presiding at a same-sex wedding in January. Judge Terry Jennings, who has served as a Republican on Houston’s First Court of Appeals since 2000, announced on October…
No LGBT Nuptials Allowed at East Texas Venue
Texas Forest Country Weddings in Huntington, Texas is a venue that has everything you could want to throw the perfect wedding. There’s a mansion on a lake, a wedding chapel, an outdoor country church, a pavilion with a wooded backdrop and a bed and breakfast. What’s missing from this ideal location is a welcome sign…
LGBT Couples May Join Valentine’s Mass Weddings at Courthouse
Thanks to the Supreme Court’s ruling last summer that made marriage equality legal, this will be the first year same-sex couples will be able to participate in the mass weddings held annually at the Bexar County Courthouse on Valentine’s Day. To mark the occasion, activist Rene Orozco is organizing a Love Wins march from Milam…
Law Firm Slates Marriage Equality ‘Town Hall’
The law firm of de la Riva & Associates invites the community to a “Town Hall on Marriage Equality” at their offices on Saturday, February 27. The event, which is hosted in partnership with Bethany East PR & Management, the San Antonio LGBT Chamber of Commerce and the Great Lawyers Association, will feature a panel…
Hometown Hero: Judge Genie Wright
“In her court, she treats all individuals fairly, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.” Bexar County Judge Genie Wright of County Court No. 7 was sitting at home early in the morning of June 26, 2015, anxiously awaiting the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling regarding same-sex marriage. After the now-infamous ruling was announced, her phone…
First Presbyterian cites marriage definition among reasons to leave denomination
In an October 15 letter to their congregants, the leaders at the First Presbyterian Church of San Antonio recommended leaving the Presbyterian Church (USA) because, “We believe our denomination is not what it once was, and it has wandered from its biblical and confessional moorings.” The letter goes on to say, “Ultimately, after years of…
Dad2: Retying the knot
This may be a shock to some of our friends, but we have decided to wait to get married! Well, okay, in our minds we have been married all this time: Ten years to be exact. I mean “exact,” as we recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of what has to be one of the most…
Most Influential 2015: Neel Lane
In February 2014, Neel Lane, along with litigation partner Barry Chasnoff, led a team from the San Antonio office of Akin Gump on behalf of clients Nicole Dimetman and Cleopatra De Leon and Victor Holmes and Mark Phariss. The two couples were seeking a preliminary injunction to bar Texas from enforcing its same-sex marriage ban.…
Most Influential 2015: Robert Salcido
On the afternoon of June 26, the day the Supreme Court made marriage equality the law of the land, Robert Salcido, Jr. was standing at the pulpit of the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd speaking at what would be the first church wedding in San Antonio. He was there as a representative of Equality…
Most Influential 2015: Gerard Rickhoff
Bexar County Clerk Gerry Rickhoff could have just said he was prepared to follow the Supreme Court’s ruling. He’s a Republican after all, and an elected one at that. In fact, elected to a position where he’s not had much competition in his two-decade career, in part because it’s the sort of job no one…