Open email to Texas State Sen. Dan
Patrick:
Dear Sen. Patrick,
I have read your newsletter, which covers two major points.
I basically agree with your proposed high school educational program, which deaccents the advocacy that all high school students should prepare themselves to enter college. Everyone having a college education has been an unrealistic goal. Unrealistic, to the extent that colleges and universities now operate to teach only the intellectual aspects of life and ignore the more practical side, such as mechanical repair, retail sales, law enforcement, oil drilling, and the like. It is past time to recognize the societal need to educate its young people in the practical aspects as well as intellectual pursuits. Congratulations to you for recognizing this and taking the first steps of changing this for the great state of Texas.
I was also especially intrigued about your discussion concerning the granting of insurance benefits to same-sex partners by various Texas municipalities. This seemed a little outside your normal concern with education, but is obviously of great significance to Texas.
For those who have not read your newsletter or followed your activities, I summarize the situation as follows: The people of Texas have voted on and a law has been established, which clearly specifies that marriage is defined as between one man one woman, and that any other combination has no legal status. You then found that several municipalities in Texas were offering special insurance benefits based upon a homosexual relationship. You questioned Attorney General Abbott for his opinion on this matter. Atty. Gen. Abbott replied that while the legality would be a court decision, he believes that the present practice of the municipalities is illegal.
We seem to have left the matter of illegal insurance benefit practice in limbo. We have your question and Atty. Gen. Abbott's opinion, but what are we doing next? Since the Attorney General believes that the municipalities are operating illegally on this insurance matter, is it not the Attorney General's responsibility to start prosecution?
Dear Sen. Patrick,
I have read your newsletter, which covers two major points.
I basically agree with your proposed high school educational program, which deaccents the advocacy that all high school students should prepare themselves to enter college. Everyone having a college education has been an unrealistic goal. Unrealistic, to the extent that colleges and universities now operate to teach only the intellectual aspects of life and ignore the more practical side, such as mechanical repair, retail sales, law enforcement, oil drilling, and the like. It is past time to recognize the societal need to educate its young people in the practical aspects as well as intellectual pursuits. Congratulations to you for recognizing this and taking the first steps of changing this for the great state of Texas.
I was also especially intrigued about your discussion concerning the granting of insurance benefits to same-sex partners by various Texas municipalities. This seemed a little outside your normal concern with education, but is obviously of great significance to Texas.
For those who have not read your newsletter or followed your activities, I summarize the situation as follows: The people of Texas have voted on and a law has been established, which clearly specifies that marriage is defined as between one man one woman, and that any other combination has no legal status. You then found that several municipalities in Texas were offering special insurance benefits based upon a homosexual relationship. You questioned Attorney General Abbott for his opinion on this matter. Atty. Gen. Abbott replied that while the legality would be a court decision, he believes that the present practice of the municipalities is illegal.
We seem to have left the matter of illegal insurance benefit practice in limbo. We have your question and Atty. Gen. Abbott's opinion, but what are we doing next? Since the Attorney General believes that the municipalities are operating illegally on this insurance matter, is it not the Attorney General's responsibility to start prosecution?
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