Church and State are separate. For the millions of religious groups or ignorant, bigoted preferences, State employees do not have the "Right to Refuse Service" do to their bigoted, political or religious choice, as they are paid employees to serve everyone in the State. They can no longer deny filing this union contract between two people including the .05% born with atypical genitalia, the surgical alteration by choice or health, or personal choice of sexual orientation is. Just as the "One Drop Rule" Texas retained their old "blood fraction" statutes de jure, but amended these fractions (one-sixteenth, one-thirty-second) to be equivalent to one-drop de facto-that would have denied Ted Cruz and Gov. Abbot's marriages due to anti-miscegenation statutes in the Dallas Records building, at the desk across from the "Whites Only" sign etched in marble above the water fountain where Ted and Abbott's wife could be arrested for being thirsty. As Texas can no longer deny the religious ideology, race, country of origin, Health premarital blood tests and pelvic examinations as it is no business of any clerk (still CT, DC, IN and MT do) or Adultery Status.

The United States Supreme Court has ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that marriage is a constitutionally protected right of all citizens of the United States of America, including members of the LGBT community. When you, and all officials of this State, decided to enter into public service you became servants of all of the citizens of Texas, not just the ones you agree with. The public servants of this State receive their paychecks from the State, counties and cities that they serve, not from their respective churches or religious institutions. We have no issue with you having your deeply held religious beliefs. But if they prevent you from executing your jobs, from which the citizens of this State employ you to perform, then you should find another job. You have a constitutional duty to enforce all laws, even the ones you do not agree with because of your deeply held religious beliefs. It is time for you to stop disrespecting the rule of law and begin to immediately require all public servants responsible for issuing marriage certificates to our LGBT Texans to do so, and to require any public servant who, under usual and ordinary circumstances, would perform a wedding ceremony to heterosexual couples to perform those same services to homosexual couples seeking to marry. Note that this requirement does not include any religious institution who have specific exclusions from the Supreme Court of the United States' ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges.

I am totally against using derogatory terms used to describe a particular race. As an African-American woman, I am highly offended and I want it removed from all English dictionaries.

There have been too many assaults on African American Churches in the wake of the South Carolina shooting. Six Churches have been burned. The Department of Justice needs to investigate these hate crimes.

I've been saving this issue for a long time. If they do not change this now, when the confederate symbols are being seen for what they are, then when? The Maryland state song is not just a symbol, it actually spells out in explicit terms what all Marylanders should do. It is way out of date, and needs to go.

Alice Paul, (1885-1977) devoted her life to equal rights for women. She was jailed, beaten, force fed raw eggs, yet never wavered in her push for the right to vote for women, and the Equal Rights Amendment. Secretary Lew has stated that a woman will be on the $10. bill in celebration of the 19th Amendment. Let's honor Alice Paul by having her face shine for the 100 year anniversary of her leadership, of women getting the right to vote.

In light of this great win why should we have to put up with more discrimination. And in a place meant for us to feel safe and accepted.

Too many of my friends, family, neighbors and myself are disgusted with being treated as though we are foreign invaders in our own state. He is at the forefront of attempting to disenfranchise as many different groups of people as possible. That is not what effective or just governance should be.

Alabama probate judge Wes Allen of Pike County stopped issuing marriage licenses altogether in protest of the Supreme Court ruling on Friday that struck down state bans on same-sex marriage and legalized it nationwide. Hours after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same sex marriage across the country on Friday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott told his department directors to not take action against any state officials who act or refuse to act on account of their "sincere religious belief." "This order applies to any agency decision, including but not limited to granting or denying benefits, managing agency employees, entering or enforcing agency contracts, licensing and permitting decisions, or enforcing state laws and regulations," Abbott wrote. These are only two examples. Such flagrant violations of people's rights cannot go unanswered.

As a Jewish American, I am outraged that Amazon.com promotes the sale of items containing relics of hatred and terror such as swastikas and ISIS symbols. The site banned sales of Confederate flags; now go one step further!

As a proud retired veteran of the Vietnam War, my sons and nephews as veterans of the wars in Panama and Iraq, my grandson and my nephews as veterans of the war in Afghanistan, I and my family have experienced the hardships of military life and reaped the consequences of misguided, senseless conflicts. My grandchildren, upon registration with the Selective Service, will automatically be subjected to being drafted into a future war. As such, I believe they should have an automatic say, at the voting booth, as to who makes the decisions to go to war, they should be able to decide who the deciders are in our government.

My name is Joaquin Jackson, Mr. Clifford Greene asked my father Rev. Ronnie Jackson Sr. to bond his son (Moses Greene) out of jail on a property bond. The bond was $49,500.00, and my daddy didn’t get any money upfront. My father’s friend Mr. Jerome Enders knew Mr. Greene, and vouch for his character under the premise he would do the correct thing. Having his son at all future court dates. He missed a court date in early May. Mr. Greene and his son lied to my father for nearly a month saying his son had made the court date. My father didn’t found out until the Middle Georgia Fugitive Squad came looking for my father. I was so scared for my father, and I thought they were getting ready to hurt my father, and I just started crying. Instead of condemning his son, he is condoning, and encouraging his son to flee from prosecution. Mr. Greene is very aware that my father is getting ready to lose his home because of their backstabbing and low life ways. Therefore, if my father is going to lose $49,500.00, Mr. Greene should not keep making money at Flava Fashions//FLAVAUSA 1747/646 Shurling Drive, Macon, Ga. 31211-(478) 743-4050. He is making money off the African American community to fund his son excursion as he flees from prosecution. This is Cain killing Abel in our community as he screws over my father who has helped his son out. DO NOT SUPPORT FLAVA FASHIONS, Or FLAV USA. My father was borne and raised on the east side, and no Jacksons should support this business, or this low life scumbag. Boycott this business until he turns his lousy son into the proper authority. He is already on Macon Regional Crime Stopper (478) 742-2330 with a reward up to $10,000. Would you all please help my father so he won’t lose his property? PLEASE? Excuse my grammar, I am so afraid for my father. I thank you in advance, Joaquin. ☹