Posted on 07/28/2015 4:55:02 PM PDT by markomalley
The Texas Supreme Court has issued a ruling against a local law allowing transgendered individuals to use the bathroom of their choice.
In May 2014, Houston's mayor Annise Parker signed into law the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO), an ordinance allowing "transgender" individuals to use the public restrooms designated for whatever sex they sincerely perceived themselves to be, regardless of their biological sex.
According to the Houston Chronicle at the time:
The measure bans discrimination based not just on sexual orientation and gender identity but also, as federal laws do, sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, pregnancy and genetic information, as well as family, marital or military status.
The ordinance applies to businesses that serve the public, private employers, housing, city employment and city contracting. Religious institutions would be exempt. Violators could be fined up to $5,000.
Within two months, Houstonians rallied against HERO as well as their mayor — the first openly lesbian mayor of a major American city. They began a petition to repeal the new law, or else put the option of repealing it on the ballot for a vote.
That petition was then delivered to the city with more than 50,000 signatures — except most of them were discounted by the mayor, and the final, official count was found as failing to fulfill the 17,269-signee requirement. "[M]ost of the pages contained mistakes that invalidated the entire page of signatures," according to the city.
Opponents of HERO suspected foul play, however, and formally sued over the rejection of their acquired signatures. Soon afterward is when the ordinance really hit national headlines, as Mayor Parker issued five subpoenas requesting copies of the sermons of some local Christian pastors who didn't like the ordinance.
Following a storm of backlash for this attempt to hamper free speech, Mayor Parker eventually dropped the subpoenas.
The overall battle continued to the Supreme Court of Texas, which released its decision Friday.
The Court ruled against Mayor Parker and the city, holding that if the city council doesn't repeal the ordinance by August 24 of this year, HERO will be decided by a popular vote during the city's next general election.
Until then, it cannot be enforced.
Just think of how many people voted FOR her, and fear for America’s future.
Joel Osteen performed the benediction and blessed this openly Sodomite Mayor.
And in Houston, TEXAS!!
How much longer before the whole state turns blue.
You can have the people vote on it — but it won’t matter.
California’s experience with Prop 8 showed that SCOTUS cares not one whit about the democratic process.
You didn’t see the results from the last election.
Joel Osteen strikes me as probably a bit light in the loafers himself, just based on his mannerisms.
Why am I not surprised!
Ole Mule teeth himself!
Hopefully by the end of the Summer CRUZ and LEE can remove this Sanctuary City CRAP for good!
I often wonder how you people sit here day to day reading about this slow motion Train Wreck that use to be YOUR COUNTRY, I can do it, but I’m weird and seldom let anything get under my SKIN!!
I am worried, BUT, Besides CRUZ and LEE I see very little, if any HOPE.
We call her Anus Porker. I hope she has a good conservative run against her next time but sadly the central parts of Houston tend to vote liberal.
BWAHAHAHAHAHHAHA
Take that dirt bag
“Joel Osteen performed the benediction and blessed this openly Sodomite Mayor.”
Joel Osteen and his wife are just grifters who’ve found there’s money ( a lot of money) in “The God Business.”
Ditter - You know she can’t run again because she’s term limited. Looks like Turner and Garcia are front runners at this time and both of them support the Mayor’s position on this ordinance. Will be interesting to see how this stacks up against the Black ministers who are against it and Hispanic voters who I don’t think generally support GLBT issues.
Wouldn’t be surprised to see Porker run for State office next time around.
This scumbag lesbian might very well do that.
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