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Texas LGBTQ Caucus Scuttles Religious Freedom Bill
Church Militant ^ | 5/13/19 | Bruce Walker

Posted on 05/13/2019 7:58:03 PM PDT by marshmallow

Group stops debate of proposed law on House floor

AUSTIN, Texas (ChurchMilitant.com) - The Texas legislature's LGBTQ caucus is taking credit for blocking a religious freedom bill in the state last week.

Also known as the "Save Chick-fil-A Bill," House Bill 3172 would have protected business owners with publicly stated religious opinions from adverse government action.

For example, the CEO of the fast food chain is an acknowledged critic of same-sex marriage as well as a frequent donor to organizations that promote traditional Christian marriage. Because of these strongly held positions, the San Antonio city council refused to issue permits that would have allowed franchise placements in the city's airports.

Representative Matt Krause (R-Fort Worth) introduced HB 3172 this past March. In part, the text of the bill reads: "Notwithstanding any other law, a governmental entity may not take any adverse action against any person based wholly or partly on the person's membership in, affiliation with, or contribution, donation, or other support provided to a religious organization."

The bill, however, was defeated successfully not on its merits but by a point of procedure claiming the description of the bill was misleading. The fallout is that the bill is dead due to a May 10 deadline for preliminary passage of laws before the May 27 end of the 2019 legislative session (Texas' part-time legislature only meets for five months each year).

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TOPICS: Current Events; Moral Issues; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: antichristian; blacklist; gaymafia; hb3172; homofascism; homonaziagenda; liberalbigots; pinklisted; texas
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1 posted on 05/13/2019 7:58:03 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

One for the buttpumpers!


2 posted on 05/13/2019 8:02:38 PM PDT by northislander
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To: marshmallow

“...or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,”


3 posted on 05/13/2019 8:04:15 PM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: marshmallow

The magic question, if the owners of a halal meat market voiced the same opinions as the Chick Fil-A mgmt, how would this “queer caucus” react? (((((crickets)))))


4 posted on 05/13/2019 8:04:39 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: marshmallow
Texas LGBTQ caucus


5 posted on 05/13/2019 8:04:49 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww
Democratic state Rep. Julie Johnson, part of the legislature’s five-women LGBTQ Caucus, helped killed HB 3172....


6 posted on 05/13/2019 8:13:02 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

She also helping to kill my eyesight.


7 posted on 05/13/2019 8:16:08 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: marshmallow

Ok - I’m done - time to start fighting back.

These gay twits don’t care about liberty or freedom but their own sexual perversion and I’m done coddling them.

People in this country have the right to free thought and the right to conduct commerce on their own without government intrusion dictating morality upon them. Which is ultimately what freedom of religion is about and it’s high time these twits, along with Sims and Buttgood are out in their place and remember that.


8 posted on 05/13/2019 8:17:45 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: caww

Good thing those uglies are not in the restaurant business.

You’d order chicken and before it got to your plate it would become pork sausage.


9 posted on 05/13/2019 8:18:47 PM PDT by Veto! (Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me))
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To: marshmallow

LGBTQWERTY has spoken.


10 posted on 05/13/2019 8:19:35 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (If you want a definition of "bullying" just watch the Democrats in the Senate)
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Their caucus is just five women....terrible thing when women such as these gain political power.


11 posted on 05/13/2019 8:26:38 PM PDT by caww
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To: Ancesthntr

Killed my appetite


12 posted on 05/13/2019 8:34:40 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: marshmallow

I guess we can soon put Texas in the blue column.


13 posted on 05/13/2019 8:34:55 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: Skywise
The gay mafia calls themselves that and the so-called “equality” bills and councils they advance are decidedly anti-Christian and they know it and will say it in hushed tones to “friendly” audiences.

It is an attack on religion.

Stalinists lie. Always

They are not about “equality”. They are about despotic power and seek to pinklist/blacklist anyone who is a heretic in their eyes.

14 posted on 05/13/2019 8:36:52 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: northislander

Only two things come from Texas......


15 posted on 05/13/2019 8:38:34 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: marshmallow

I wasn’t aware our Texas Legislature even had a LGBT caucus! How did that happen?

Must be Dems from Houston, San Antonio, Dallas and Austin.


16 posted on 05/13/2019 8:44:19 PM PDT by octex
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To: caww

You sure that’s not the local weight watchers?

CC


17 posted on 05/13/2019 8:50:15 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV)
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I don’t see no horns on you, son!

CC


18 posted on 05/13/2019 8:51:52 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV)
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To: caww

Large, Gargantuan, Bulbous, Tubby Queens. Including the guy.


19 posted on 05/13/2019 9:10:39 PM PDT by JennysCool
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To: caww

The ark is to be 300 cubits long, 30 cubits wide, and 50 cubits high...


20 posted on 05/13/2019 9:27:26 PM PDT by BigEdLB (BigEdLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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