Lawyers at a dozen Texas law firms joined in an amicus brief filed Feb. 27 with the state Supreme Court in support of same-sex married couples’ right to the same employment benefits as opposite-sex couples despite the disapproval by some on religious grounds.
The lawyers joined the Anti-Defamation League in filing the brief in Pidgeon v. Turner, arguing that “religious and moral disapproval by a limited segment of the population provide no basis for limiting the scope of the constitutional marriage rights” that the U.S. Supreme Court articulated in 2015 in Obergefell v. Hodge.
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