Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Won't Answer Direct Questions On SCOTUS/Same-Sex Marriage

When pressed by CNN host Alisyn Camerota regarding the upcoming ruling from the Supreme Court on marriage equality, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was not willing to say that the state would follow the Supreme Court if it decided to rule in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage later this year.

Camerota pushed further asking what Paxton suggests that gays and lesbians in love should do.

Here's the exchange:

“They have — they can do whatever they want,” Paxton shrugged. “But the reality itself right now in Texas was defined by the people of Texas overwhelmingly as between a man and a woman. And that’s the law of Texas, it’s in our constitution, it’s in our statutes.”

“I mean, they can’t really do whatever they want as you’ve just said,” Camerota shot back. “Do you understand why gays in Texas would feel that is discriminating against them?”

“They can feel how they want,” Paxton replied. “The reality is the voters of Texas have passed the law as it is.”

Check how vague and uncomfortable it gets at the 3:45 mark when Camerota asks if Texas HAS to conform to federal law, meaning the Supreme Court ruling.