Texas Dems Bake Up a Response to Antigay Lawmakers

It was sweet revenge, or at least sweet payback, to counter an anti-marriage equality event.

Trudy Ring

Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.

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When it comes to marriage equality, Texas Democrats have decided to fight cake with cake.

Some Republican office-holders shared wedding cake last month to prematurely celebrate the 10th anniversary of the state's anti-equality constitutional amendment. To counter this, members of the Texas Democratic Party stopped by the offices of state officials Wednesday with cakes "to remind them that the majority of Texans support the freedom to marry," according to the party's Facebook page.

They took the cakes, decorated with a map of Texas in rainbow colors, to the offices of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, Sen. Donna Campbell, and several other lawmakers. The Democrats wanted to send them "a slice of love -- cakes that show that, in Texas, love is love," notes a fundraising page for the effort. The Democrats also delivered cards reading "Love Is Love."

Patrick and Campbell were among those who attended the February 24 event at the state capitol at which several prominent Republicans and the conservative group Texas Values observed the anniversary of the amendment. They held a ceremonial cake-cutting and offered slices to constituents while expounding on "traditional values" and alleged discrimination against Christians.

There was one problem -- the 10th anniversary of the amendment does not occur until November 8. By then the U.S. Supreme Court, however, may have ruled that bans like Texas's violate the U.S. Constitution. On April 28, the high court will hear a case involving marriage bans from four other states, which could result in a ruling for nationwide marriage equality, expected by the end of June.