[mandaladon]

The questions that arise here are as follows: Are those who have vocally opposed gay marriage or homosexuality then not eligible to be appointed to government committees? Would a pastor, for instance, be banned for having Bible-based, theological views on these issues? What, exactly, does "bias" mean? What about a Catholic who has voiced support for the church's teachings? And these are only some of the many questions.................Hard to imagine this in Texas

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Fascists on the march.

[Army Air Corps]

Thank Mayor Julian Castro and some of his buddies on the Council for this pile of crap.

[jagusafr]

The Castros are a poison, a cancer on the city of San Antonio. They need to be run out of office at the earliest opportunity and stonewalled at every turn until then.

[Texan5]

With all the Catholics there are in SA, no one will want to serve in these positions for fear of getting a major ass kicking-since stupid can’t be fixed, may as well just let it be and watch the fun-and the lawsuits...

[Red Badger]

Where are all those supposedly ‘conservative Hispanic Catholics’ in this state?......

[Resolute Conservative]

The bigger cities in Texas are where all the carpetbaggers and illegals are moving to hence they are turning more and more liberal at the city government level.

[MarineBrat]

If this happens then I may as well start a range war, because I won’t be a second class citizen to any man.

[GeronL]

I bet there are tons of supporting comments at Yahoo too

[GeronL]

Texas has big liberal cities like everywhere in this country.

[Whenifhow]

This city is working with or partnering (Matching funds) with federal program that is propelling this. And it could also be a part of Agenda 21 (funding).

This will be coming to a town or city in your area soon.

It is not simply an attack on free speech, it is against someone who is a Christian and yet no other religion is not mentioned.

If a person is on record as saying homosexuality is a sin you can’t run for office and/ or you can be removed from office.

This is elevating homosexuals above heterosexuals so that they have special rights.

[TADSLOS]

Hard to imagine this in Texas

Not in San Antonio, Austion and Dallas- each and every one a liberal run hellhole.

[Amendment10]

I’m sorry if this has already been mentioned. I would argue the following constitutionally based point against such an ordinance. The Founding States made the Constitution’s Clause 3 of Article VI to protect people from not having to satisfy a religious test in order to be an officer of the federal government. So it seems reasonable that, since the 14th Amendment applied all constitutional priviliges and immunities, including Clause 3, to the states, that citizens cannot be banned from local government posts on the basis of their religious beliefs, traditional one man, one woman marriage reflecting Christian beliefs.

In fact, the Supreme Court possibly took Clause 3 into consideration when it found DOMA unconstitutional.

[VerySadAmerican]

Not very tolerant, are they?