The Christian Post website reports that a Texas appeals court ruled today (September 1, 2010) that a same-sex couple cannot get a divorce, because the state does not recognize gay marriage.
"Texas law, as embodied in our constitution and statutes, requires that a valid marriage must be a union of one man and one woman, and only when a union comprises one man and one woman can there be a divorce under Texas law," Justice Kerry Fitzgerald wrote in the opinion for the 5th Texas Court of Appeals.
The ruling was handed down to a gay couple -- identified only as J.B. and H.B -- who married in Massachusetts, where same-sex marriage is legal, in September 2006.
The gay couple moved to Texas in 2008, and they stopped living together in November of that year.
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