Anti-LGBTQ+ Texas AG Ken Paxton’s wife files for divorce on ‘biblical grounds’

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who once called the LGBTQ+ community “Inmoral,” faces divorce following adultery charges.

Angela Paxton, the 62-year-old politician’s wife, filed for divorce Thursday (July 10) over what she described as “recent discoveries.”

The couple’s 38-year marriage is expected to end for two years after the state’s ammo each trial revealed that Ken Paxton was engaged in an extramarital affair.

Angela Paxton said she has stuck with her husband throughout the controversy, as well as decades of legal issues surrounding controversy and state corruption accusations, and chose to file for divorce on “biblical basis.”

“Marriage is a sacred contract and I think we have pursued a settlement seriously,” she wrote in a post on X/Twitter. “However, in light of recent discoveries, I do not believe it either respects God or loves myself, my children, or Ken to stay in marriage.

“I move forward with complete confidence that God loves him and is always working with us for those who are called according to his purpose,” she continued.

In his own statement on X/Twitter, Ken Paxton sought “prayer and privacy at this time.”

The infamous anti-LGBTQ+ Attorney General has made countless policy decisions and political moves to try to remove the rights of Texas LGBTQ+ people, where he has held his position for a decade.

In 2023, Paxton was heavily criticised for trying to access civilian medical records of trans children in both Texas and other states, urging a Seattle-based hospital to sue his office for political overreach.

He made a similar move in 2022 after requesting he had obtained a list of all Texas trances, including personal information, driver’s license information and more.

At the same time, Paxton’s office threatened to refund the Austin, Texas school board with its LGBTQ+ curriculum. in X/Twitter Post On the issue, Ken Paxton described the LGBTQ+ community as “sexual propagandists and predators,” saying that LGBTQ+ views are “immoral and illegal.”

In his first year in office in 2015, Paxton was the voiced opponent of Obergefell v Hodges. This is a Supreme Court decision that codified the right of same-sex couples to marry in the United States – at that time The fact that it was blocked by the “right to freedom of religion and freedom of speech.”

His office tried to protect county clerks who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, saying they would “do everything” to prevent same-sex marriage in the state.

His campaign against same-sex relationships continued until 2022. Sodomy Law If the best cart abolished Lawrence v. Texas, it hindered the law criminalizing homosexuality in the United States.