Credit: photo by Jana Birchum

“Texas’ marriage laws are rooted in a basic reality of human life: Procreation requires a male and a female.”

– Attorney General Greg Abbott, in a brief filed Tuesday supporting the state’s ban on same-sex marriage.

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