Robert Lloyd sued them.

“He said to the commissioners it was tough to answer the question about gay marriage,” the lawsuit states. “Defendants did not approve of this attitude, and even told Mr. Lloyd he needed a better answer to their questions about gay marriage.”

After the interview, commissioners voted unanimously to hire the brother-in-law of the of the person who serves as attorney for the Commissioners Court.

Obviously, you cannot ask questions like that because even the Texas Constitution says you can’t.

I do not know what the correct answer to gay marriage is but I suspect it involves the F word and heavy weaponry.

So, what does Williamson County do? Do they use the above-mentioned “attorney for commissioners court” or even the county attorney, whose duty it is to represent the county?

No, the county attorney, Republican Doyle “Dee” Hobbs, Jr., is apparently not qualified to handle “representing the county.” Republicans are kinda famous for that.

So, the county commissioners go out and hire the powerhouse law firm Bracewell & Giuliana in Houston.

You will thoroughly enjoy what Bracewell and Giuliana are charging the taxpayers of Williamson County to defend raw and vicious hate on commissioners court so they could brother-in-law in the good ole boy they wanted in the first place.

As you read through the contract, anyone who has ever dealt with these things can tell you that it’s not unusual for you to pay the hourly charge of 7 or 8 lawyers in the firm for a meeting on your case, and that hourly charges are the least of the charges. The real money comes from “expenses.” Holy cow, what they charge for a paperclip makes the $175 for a hospital aspirin look like a bargain.

So, finally, I get to what I want to say: Have you ever notice that Republicans won’t give a slice of bread to a starving baby but will pay millions of dollars to a legal firm to defend their right to hate entire groups of people?

That’s what I wanted to say. Sorry it took me so long to get to it.