Only two things come from Texas....
Welcome to the freak show...
Bovine excrement. This is gay and transgendered supremacy plain and simple.
Isn’t the mayor a lesbian?
Let the lawsuits begin...
Pastor coalition final statement on ERO to Houston City Council
Baptist Ministers Association of Houston * Houston Area Pastor Council Houston Ministers Against Crime * AME Ministers Alliance of Houston/Gulf Coast * Northeast Ministers Alliance * South Texas Full Gospel Baptist Fellowship * South Texas District Council of the Assemblies of God* National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference
To Honorable Houston City Council Members:
We have prepared and presented to you on multiple occasions the many reasons we have been compelled to oppose the “Equal Rights Ordinance” proposed by Mayor Parker. As we have shown and provided via testimony and the legal briefs from our counsel, Alliance Defending Freedom, the serious flaws in both process and content were and are irreconcilable.
We have shown that the ordinance is unnecessary and based on vague, anecdotal incidents that cannot withstand scrutiny of basic evidentiary process. Mayor Parker has acknowledged that this is primarily about the LGBT community and the city attorney in his public comments at the committee meeting acknowledged there was not a legitimate local need.
We have raised our concerns as to the privacy and protection of women and children through the Public Accommodations section that is not better, but worse, with the removal of 17-51 (b). When the city attorney said he couldn’t find any incidents where there was a problem, we provided many. We have revealed the direct threat to the freedoms of religion and speech against business owners who simply practice business according to their faith by following principles we once applauded.
We reject the comparison of sexual behavior and the definition of gender identity with race, religion, sex and physical disability that are immutable, unchangeable classes. Our Black pastors and congregations in particular, also our Hispanic and Asian pastors and churches, find it patently offensive to equate the color of their skin, which they did not choose, with a person’s lifestyle choice. Additionally, the Civil Rights movement has been about making sure everyone has the same rights.
We believe that this ordinance gives special rights to a people group who already has the same rights as everyone else. Finally, the attached polling confirms that lop-sided outpouring of calls and emails to your offices. Over eighty percent of “We the People” do NOT want this ordinance.
We consider a vote for this ordinance as a vote against “We the People.” We cannot nor will not overlook such a vote in all future opportunities to hold those council members accountable for such an action who cast that vote.
can I ask a stupid question?
What rights were being denied to gay and trans-whatever residents of Houston? Considering our various constitutional rights, freedom of speech, the right to vote,etc., which rights were being denied, that they felt the need to pass this so called equal rights ordinance???
When some perv claims to be transgendered and uses the women’s restroom and rapes someone, I hope the city gets sued for pushing this idiotic ruling. Instead, what will probably happen is the police will question someone for using the women’s restroom and then that guy will sue the city for discrimination.
Texas... Has it gotten to the point that conservatives should abandon all urban areas?
One must wonder how selectively protecting certain folks over others makes things fall in with “equal protections”.
These ordinances are nothing but Christian discrimination laws. Completely unconstitutional.