Texas Republican lawmakers
sure know how to party.
State legislators on Tuesday
celebrated Faith and Family Day
which was organized
by Texas Values
and Texas Right to Life
to celebrate ten years
of marriage inequality.
In January
State Representative Cecil Bell
introduced a bill
that would strip of his or her
pension and salary
any employee
who performed a same-sex marriage.
They celebrated with a cake
which according to rumors
about Marie Antoinette
was callously recommended by her
as a replacement for bread
for the French poor
just as legally-encoded bigotry
is a fine substitution
for the millions in "bread"
marriage equality
would bring to the state
(not to mention
several tasty layers of dignity).
This poem © 2015 Emily Cooper.
