Dallas County District Judge Martin Hoffman had a response to Justice Clarence Thomas’ Dobbs decision footnote — he married couples.
The Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade taking away abortion rights. In his addendum to the opinion, Thomas said he’d like to review the right to contraception, the right for same sex couples to engage in private sexual relations and right for gays and lesbians to marry.
Of couorse, the one right Thomas doesn’t want reviewed is the right for intersex couples to marry — the decision upon which marriage equality for same-sex couples was based.
To show that many judges disagree with taking away people’s rights, Judge Hoffman decorated his courtroom in rainbows of balloons, brought in cake from Cake Bar in Trinity Groves and welcomed couples to marry with waiting times and fees waived.