Texas Judge Forbids Lesbian Woman From Living With Her Partner

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Carolyn Compton is in a three year-old relationship with a woman. According to Compton’s partner Page Price, Compton’s ex-husband rarely sees their two children and was also once charged with stalking Compton, a felony, although he eventually plead to a misdemeanor charge of criminal trespassing.

And yet, thanks to a Texas judge, Compton could lose custody of her children because she has the audacity to live with the woman she loves.

According to Price, Judge John Roach, a Republican who presides over a state trial court in McKinney, Texas, placed a so-called “morality clause” in Compton’s divorce papers. This clause forbids Compton having a person that she is not related to “by blood or marriage” at her home past 9pm when her children are present. Since Texas will not allow Compton to marry her partner, this means that she effectively cannot live with her partner so long as she retains custody over her children. Invoking the “morality clause,” Judge Roach gave Price 30 days to move out of Compton’s home.

Compton can appeal Roach’s decision, but her appeal will be heard by the notoriously conservative Texas court system. Ultimately, the question of whether Compton’s relationship with Price is entitled to the same dignity accorded to any other loving couple could rest with the United States Supreme Court.

Have something to say to John Roach? 

Here you go: 

Honorable John Roach, Jr.
Judge Presiding

296th District Court
Collin County Courthouse     map
2100 Bloomdale Road, Suite 20012
McKinney, TX 75071

Phone:972-548-4409 (McKinney)
972-424-1460 ext. 4409 (Metro)
Fax:972-548-4697 (District Clerk)

Fucking hell. I’m calling as soon as I hit reblog.

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thedarkchocolatedandy: xtremecaffeine: freshest-tittymilk: morphinginthepuhsea: thickness-everdeen: basednigel: malformalady: Birds clustered together on a porch during a cold snap in Suthern Texas Evil That’s the devil and we all know it it would be time to move. ASAP. NO NO NO NO NOOOOOO Howl??? Imma need some holy water and some edge clippers for this shit.  Eh. Usual Texas stuff. Mostly, I just worry about the Chupacabras and the Marfa Lights and giant pterodactyls.
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malformalady:

Birds clustered together on a porch during a cold snap in Suthern Texas

Evil

That’s the devil and we all know it

it would be time to move.

ASAP.

NO NO NO NO NOOOOOO

Howl???

Imma need some holy water and some edge clippers for this shit. 

Eh. Usual Texas stuff.

Mostly, I just worry about the Chupacabras and the Marfa Lights and giant pterodactyls.

Source: malformalady

And then there is the case that most troubles Cherry and leaders of the Texas NAACP, involving a 14-year-old black freshman, Shaquanda Cotton, who shoved a hall monitor at Paris High School in a dispute over entering the building before the school day had officially begun.

The youth had no prior arrest record, and the hall monitor—a 58-year-old teacher’s aide—was not seriously injured. But Shaquanda was tried in March 2006 in the town’s juvenile court, convicted of “assault on a public servant” and sentenced by Lamar County Judge Chuck Superville to prison for up to 7 years, until she turns 21. Just three months earlier, Superville sentenced a 14-year-old white girl, convicted of arson for burning down her family’s house, to probation.

“All Shaquanda did was grab somebody and she will be in jail for 5 or 6 years?” said Gary Bledsoe, an Austin attorney who is president of the state NAACP branch. “It’s like they are sending a signal to black folks in Paris that you stay in your place in this community, in the shadows, intimidated.”

Creola Cotton did not dispute that her daughter can behave impulsively and was sometimes guilty of tardiness or speaking out of turn at school—behaviors that she said were manifestations of Shaquanda’s attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, for which the teen was taking prescription medication. Nor does Shaquanda herself deny that she pushed the teacher after being pushed first and injured, although Shaquanda’s mother maintains that she was supposed to have been allowed to visit the school nurse to take her medication. Brenda Cherry, a local activist, alleges that Shaquanda’s frequent disciplinary write-ups, and the insistence of school officials at her trial that she deserved prison rather than probation for the shoving incident, fits in a larger pattern of systemic discrimination against black students in the district.[7]

Reading about Shaquanda Cotton and Paris, TX (via stankdiesel)

SEVEN YEARS IN PRISON FOR PUSHING A TEACHER?!??! WHILE A WHITE BITCH BURNS DOWN HER FAMILY HOME AND GETS PROBATION!??!!?!??!?!?!?!!?

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racism and white privilege  

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SEVEN FUCKING YEARS? SHE WAS FUCKING 14.

That shit is disgusting.

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Seven years?

There are fucking rapists that have gotten shorter sentences than that.

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Source: Wikipedia

flatsound:

I’m surprised at how little my dash is talking about this right now. There was an enormous explosion at a fertilizer plant in Waco, TX resulting in an unfortunate amount of injuries and deaths. Keep Texas in your thoughts tonight, guys. 

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/17/us/texas-explosion/index.html

Warning: The video isn’t after the explosion, it’s of the explosion. It comes in at the 0:30 mark, turn your speakers DOWN. 

shit

TRIGGER WARNING for this video — it is disturbing. the people filming this are incredibly frightened and one may have sustained hearing damage from the explosion

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thepeoplesrecord: Developing: Multiple casualties in Texas fertilizer plant explosionApril 17, 2013 A massive explosion has rocked a fertilizer plant near Waco, Texas. Hundreds of people were likely injured, state official says. A nursery home was destroyed by the blast and numerous buildings were damaged. The explosion occurred around 7:50 p.m. local time in the town of West, north of Waco. A fireball of nearly 100 feet high has been reported along with a massive power outage. A spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, D.L. Wilson, told Reuters the explosion had resulted in “probably hundreds of casualties,” saying he did not know if any of those were fatalities. An official number of fatalities has yet to be confirmed but 60 people have been admitted to Hillcrest Hospital in Waco, just one of the multiple emergency facilities in the area. The explosion destroyed a nearby nursing home, where it is thought that people may still be trapped inside. Roughly 150 survivors from the damaged nursing home had been evacuated and sent to a community center outside of town, while doctors and staff of the Hillcrest Hospital have been taking in the first wave of burn victims. Fire units were draining water from community pools to douse the flames. More than 1,000 people are said to be without electricity, according to local ABC News affiliate KXXV. A large swath of West was “leveled” in the explosion, according to WFAA-TV Dallas reporter Jason Whitely. West’s population was 2,674 at the 2010 census. The town is located 19.3 miles north of Waco, Texas and 70 miles south of the Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan area. First responders requested a bomb squad to investigate a pervasive scent of flammable chemicals. Multiple barns in the area are engulfed in flames. Nine emergency helicopters were reported to be en route to the local high school. Emergency officials were also trying to evacuate a neighborhood near the site of the explosion. Hospital officials told CNN they were anticipating as many as 100 victims. Police officers were seen transporting the injured in their squad cars. Source
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thepeoplesrecord: Developing: Multiple casualties in Texas fertilizer plant explosionApril 17, 2013 A massive explosion has rocked a fertilizer plant near Waco, Texas. Hundreds of people were likely injured, state official says. A nursery home was destroyed by the blast and numerous buildings were damaged. The explosion occurred around 7:50 p.m. local time in the town of West, north of Waco. A fireball of nearly 100 feet high has been reported along with a massive power outage. A spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, D.L. Wilson, told Reuters the explosion had resulted in “probably hundreds of casualties,” saying he did not know if any of those were fatalities. An official number of fatalities has yet to be confirmed but 60 people have been admitted to Hillcrest Hospital in Waco, just one of the multiple emergency facilities in the area. The explosion destroyed a nearby nursing home, where it is thought that people may still be trapped inside. Roughly 150 survivors from the damaged nursing home had been evacuated and sent to a community center outside of town, while doctors and staff of the Hillcrest Hospital have been taking in the first wave of burn victims. Fire units were draining water from community pools to douse the flames. More than 1,000 people are said to be without electricity, according to local ABC News affiliate KXXV. A large swath of West was “leveled” in the explosion, according to WFAA-TV Dallas reporter Jason Whitely. West’s population was 2,674 at the 2010 census. The town is located 19.3 miles north of Waco, Texas and 70 miles south of the Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan area. First responders requested a bomb squad to investigate a pervasive scent of flammable chemicals. Multiple barns in the area are engulfed in flames. Nine emergency helicopters were reported to be en route to the local high school. Emergency officials were also trying to evacuate a neighborhood near the site of the explosion. Hospital officials told CNN they were anticipating as many as 100 victims. Police officers were seen transporting the injured in their squad cars. Source
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thepeoplesrecord:

Developing: Multiple casualties in Texas fertilizer plant explosion
April 17, 2013

A massive explosion has rocked a fertilizer plant near Waco, Texas. Hundreds of people were likely injured, state official says. A nursery home was destroyed by the blast and numerous buildings were damaged.

The explosion occurred around 7:50 p.m. local time in the town of West, north of Waco. A fireball of nearly 100 feet high has been reported along with a massive power outage.

A spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, D.L. Wilson, told Reuters the explosion had resulted in “probably hundreds of casualties,” saying he did not know if any of those were fatalities.

An official number of fatalities has yet to be confirmed but 60 people have been admitted to Hillcrest Hospital in Waco, just one of the multiple emergency facilities in the area.

The explosion destroyed a nearby nursing home, where it is thought that people may still be trapped inside.

Roughly 150 survivors from the damaged nursing home had been evacuated and sent to a community center outside of town, while doctors and staff of the Hillcrest Hospital have been taking in the first wave of burn victims. Fire units were draining water from community pools to douse the flames.

More than 1,000 people are said to be without electricity, according to local ABC News affiliate KXXV.

A large swath of West was “leveled” in the explosion, according to WFAA-TV Dallas reporter Jason Whitely.

West’s population was 2,674 at the 2010 census. The town is located 19.3 miles north of Waco, Texas and 70 miles south of the Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan area.

First responders requested a bomb squad to investigate a pervasive scent of flammable chemicals. Multiple barns in the area are engulfed in flames.

Nine emergency helicopters were reported to be en route to the local high school. Emergency officials were also trying to evacuate a neighborhood near the site of the explosion. Hospital officials told CNN they were anticipating as many as 100 victims.

Police officers were seen transporting the injured in their squad cars.

Source

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Source: thepeoplesrecord

confuzzeldmind:

brashblacknonbeliever:

All residents of West, TX are being advised to leave town immediately.

This has been on non-stop on news channels since it happened

  • If you are in West Texas, evacuate immediately the residual chemicals are EXTREMELY dangerous.
  • AVOID I-35 ! They have requested that it be used for Emergency vehicles only at this time.
  • Take only the essentials, lock everything up, TAKE YOUR PETS.
  • DFW is currently considered a ‘safe’ location

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Updates on Waco TX Fertilizer Plant Explosion (12:25 AM)

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