Death, taxes and Texas AG Ken Paxton suing the president.
Attorney General Ken Paxton hasagainst President Joe Biden’s administration to allow faith-based adoption agencies to discriminate on the basis of gender identity, sexual orientation and same-sex marriage status while being a part of the state's adoption process and receiving federal money.
Paxton's office didn't respond to a request for comment. Texas filed a similar lawsuit in 2019 to strike down the rule. But a federal district court found the case moot because the Department of Health and Human Services promised not to enforce the rule and said it would later revise it. However, the state does work with various third parties that have “sincerely held religious beliefs that would prevent them from following” the rule, according to the lawsuit. If the rule is enforced, the state will have to do without federal funding or stop working with agencies that want to discriminate on the basis of gender identity, sexual orientation and same-sex marriage status.
Hill is referring to the seven-year-old securities fraud indictment against Paxton, as well as a whistleblower lawsuit accusing the attorney general of abuse of office. Paxton has always denied any wrongdoing. Hill said Republicans like to preach a bumper sticker slogan of being pro-life, “but when it actually comes to taking care of a life they’d rather marginalize and discriminate under the ruse of ‘religious freedom.
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