Live Oak County Clerk Puts Off Issuing Same-Sex Marriage Licenses Until She Can Retire

[TexasTowelie]

[font color=maroon]Full Disclosure: Karen Irving's husband, Bruce, is a Southern Baptist preacher. Bruce Irving remains the pastor of the church I attended during high school and college. He also made reference to Texas A&M in nearly every service which is why I laugh at nearly every Aggie joke that I hear or read.[/font]


Karen Irving

GEORGE WEST -- One Texas county clerk appears to have conveniently delayed issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples until she could retire.

Live Oak County Clerk Karen Irving (right) is retiring effective today, and she said her departure is due to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of same-sex marriage.

The Texas Observer reports:

“Due to the latest Supreme Court decision which is contrary to my personal beliefs, I cannot uphold the oath which I made when I took office,” Irving wrote in an email to other county clerks across the state on Monday.

Nineteen days after the high court’s ruling, Live Oak County—situated between San Antonio and Corpus Christi and home to 12,000 people—hasn’t issued any marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Irving, whose last day is today, told the Observer her office has been waiting on technical updates but should be prepared to serve same-sex couples later this week.

“We’ll be up and ready to go tomorrow afternoon and for sure on Friday, unless there’s a glitch with the vendor, but I don’t think there will be,” she said.

What a coincidence! The day after Irving retires, the county will finally be prepared to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. It certainly makes you wonder whether there were really “technical” issues, or she was just stalling until she could give her two-weeks notice.

Read more: http://www.towleroad.com/2015/07/texas-county-clerk-puts-off-issuing-sex-marriage-licenses-can-retire/

Texas Observer report: http://www.texasobserver.org/second-county-clerk-steps-down-over-gay-marriage-licenses/

[Kber]

1. Glad she's gone

[hobbit709]

2. Bye now!

coincidence my ass.

[Paladin]

3. Old and in the way. Thanks for disappearing, Ms. Irving. (nt)