Well hell, yeah.

Williamson County – north of Austin – is one of the reddest places in Texas, so they get away with crap you wouldn’t believe even if you saw it with your own eyes.

When Robert Lloyd applied for a job at the Williamson County Precinct 3 Constable’s Office, he was quizzed about his stand on gay marriage and abortion. Yeah. Constables serve civil lawsuit papers. They do not perform weddings or abortions.

Robert Lloyd was plenty pissed off.

“I was shocked,” Lloyd said, according to KVUE. “I was sick to my stomach when I left because I had never believed that things like this in government would go on.”

Lloyd’s lawyer, Wayne Krause Yang, asserted at the press conference that the commissioners refused to hire applicants who were not Baptists.

“If you don’t go to the church that they go to, you can’t have a job as a public employee in Williamson County,” Yang noted.

The commissioners have already spent $200,000 fighting for their right to hire only Baptist because, well, you know, Presbyterians are so notoriously sinful.

They are trying to deny that’s what happened.

It’s on damn tape.  And one of them is proudly admitting it.

Video depositions obtained by KVUE show Williamson County Commissioner Lisa Birkman and other commissioners admitting that applicants were asked about abortion and marriage.

“I asked a question on their view on gay marriage to all the applicants for Precinct 3 Constable and their view on abortion,” Birkman says in her deposition.

I was kinda glad to see this made the news today because I made plans yesterday to go help the Williamson County Democratic Party raise money next month.  Drop by if you want to.  My friend Dr. Karen Carter, the Party chairman, is relentless fighting Republicans.

Thanks to Laurel for the heads up.