Making good on a Republican campaign call to celebrate with "Christian friends," Texas Gov. Rick Perry traveled to an evangelical school here on Sunday to put his signature on a measure prohibit same-sex marriage.

::: So let's not only stifle civil rights - let's celebrate not allowing gay families to have legal protections for their children and partner. There is something very scary about this. :::

About 100 protesters lined the street outside the school, Calvary Christian Academy, denouncing the unusual signing as breaching the constitutional separation between church and state.

He said he was putting his signature - although it was not required - on a measure that places a proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages before Texas voters on Nov. 8. "Activist judges have used the bench to advance a narrow agenda," the governor said, adding that the measure defining marriage as a sacred bond between a man and a woman "places it beyond the reach of activist judges."

::: Those damn 'activist' judges! Without these 'activist' judges our country would still be back in the turn of the century as far as civil rights go. :::

The event caused a stir last week after The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported on plans for it. The Perry campaign later released the text of an e-mail message sent to religious groups. It said in part, "We want to completely fill this location with pro-family Christian friends who can celebrate with us."

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