Posted on 02/11/2017 6:10:23 PM PST by marshmallow
The Episcopal General Convention is scheduled to meet next summer in Austin, the Lone Star State's capitol city, where July temperatures easily soar into the triple digits beneath a blazing Texas sun suspended in a cloudless azure sky.
However, as the Episcopal Executive Council prepared to meet in Lithicum Heights, Maryland, the two presiding officers of General Convention -- Presiding Bishop Michael Curry and House of Deputies President Gay Clark Jennings -- penned a joint letter to the Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, Joe Straus (R-San Antonio) protesting Texas' latest privacy bill which, if passed, would "require Texas residents to use bathrooms according to their sex designation on their birth certificate. It would also prohibit local governments from passing laws that protect gay rights in 'intimate settings' such as public restrooms."
The "Texas Privacy Act," was launched on Jan. 5 as Senate Bill 6, by Lois Kolkhorst (R-Brenham) and is strongly supported by Texas Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick. The lieutenant governor, a Baptist, is also the president of the Texas Senate.
"If passed," the Austin Chronicle reports, "SB 6 will overwrite local nondiscrimination ordinances in cities like Austin, Dallas, and San Antonio."
By percentage (5.3%) Austin has the third largest homosexuals/bisexuals/and so called transgenders population of any American city. It ranks third behind Portland, Oregon (5.4%) and San Francisco (6.2%)
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The local ordinances force private businesses to let men into their women’s facilities that are open to the public. The Texas law gives the choice back to private businesses. Target and the president can still let men into their women’s exclusive areas on their Texas properties if they want to if this law passes.
It also requires use of publically owned sex exclusive areas to be utilized per the sex on the birth certificate. I would like to know how much Texas state money, if any, goes towards the facilities operated and owned by municipalities.
Freegards
Arlin A watching from Heaven must be very grieved (if grief is possible in Heaven) at the changes in his beloved church.
BYE! Good riddance.
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