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In Houston, Hate Trumped Fairness
The New York Times ^ | November 04, 2015 | THE EDITORIAL BOARD

Posted on 11/05/2015 1:45:12 PM PST by detective

Sometime in the near future, a transgender teenager in Texas will attempt suicide - and maybe succeed - because vilifying people for their gender identity remains politically acceptable in America.

The hateful rhetoric of leaders like Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is the latest, ugliest example. Mr. Patrick was ebullient on Tuesday night after it became clear that Houston voters had decidedly rejected a broad equal rights ordinance that opponents maliciously and misleadingly characterized as a boon for cross-dressing sex offenders.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: danpatrick; demagogicparty; gayagenda; gaykkk; gregabbott; homosexualagenda; houston; libertarians; medicalmarijuana; memebuilding; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; nyt; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; texas
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To: detective

“Sometime in the near future, a transgender teenager in Texas will attempt suicide - and maybe succeed”

What’s wrong with that? It’s one less liberal democrat.


41 posted on 11/05/2015 2:06:32 PM PST by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: detective

So NYT, any consideration to the idea that maybe one pervert or rapist might use this law to gain access to a ladies room?
One? LOL i meant THOUSANDS.

No, didn’t think so.....
FU you POS RAG


42 posted on 11/05/2015 2:07:22 PM PST by mowowie (`)
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To: elcid1970

Right on, and their leftist supporters are throwing tantrums. I love it!


43 posted on 11/05/2015 2:07:26 PM PST by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: detective
The defeat of this city ordinance means men born with male sexual organs cannot dress as women and go in designated women's restrooms. Good.

Then, the same day this ordinance failed, there is a school where a boy with male sexual organs, says he is a girl, and the US government tells the school he must be allowed to undress in the girls locker room, and they have 30 days to let this happen or the US govn. will cut off their federal money. Not good.

44 posted on 11/05/2015 2:10:29 PM PST by Marcella (CRUZ (Prepping can save your life today.))
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To: detective

Saw on twitter:

“Is there a way to be on the right side of history without it involving something shoved up your arse?”


45 posted on 11/05/2015 2:10:34 PM PST by icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
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To: DH

Well, if the transgender males go in to the business of selling sperm to lesbian buddies, if dead the market might dry up


46 posted on 11/05/2015 2:10:53 PM PST by Thibodeaux (this time really is different)
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To: detective
FU NTY Retards!

FYI - You live in a bubble, most Americans refute your ideoligy!

47 posted on 11/05/2015 2:11:28 PM PST by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: Marcella

I can think of something that should be cut off and it ain’t money.


48 posted on 11/05/2015 2:12:37 PM PST by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: detective

Dear Times: we hate being hated, yes. We don’t hate people, we dislike silly ideas.


49 posted on 11/05/2015 2:12:50 PM PST by BamaAndy
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To: detective

50 posted on 11/05/2015 2:12:58 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: dayglored

I just don’t want any competition at the urinal from any bull dykes.

Don’t mess with daddy, I got more range and accuracy.


51 posted on 11/05/2015 2:14:33 PM PST by humblegunner (NOW with even more AWESOMENESS)
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To: detective

I hate to break it to the author, but a LOT of people have in the past, are now, and will in the future commit suicide because they find themselves frustrated when their insanity is not accepted by the rest of the population. And these same people are likely to commit suicide and engage in other harmful behaviors for any frsutration they have, not just that from not being embraced.

Why is this a reason to humor them?


52 posted on 11/05/2015 2:17:39 PM PST by piasa
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To: detective
Houstonians does not want this "Woman" or this young "Girl" in the same bathroom with their wife or daughter!

As Sheriff David Clarke told Geraldo_Rivera, "Deal With It!"

53 posted on 11/05/2015 2:19:19 PM PST by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: detective

I never was able to discern how the ordinance was supposed to be fair to anyone other than men who,portrayed themselves as women.
The ads showed blacks and Hispanics and a man in a clerical collar smiling about the passage of the ordinance but not a word about what it would do for them.


54 posted on 11/05/2015 2:22:27 PM PST by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: detective; All

In Houston, despite pro-gay, PC perversions of the 14th Amendments equal protections clause, legal majority voters exercised their 10th Amendment-protected power to trump minority voters over an issue that the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect.


55 posted on 11/05/2015 2:23:17 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: detective

Notice how they linked the word ‘hate’ and ‘Trump’?................


56 posted on 11/05/2015 2:24:03 PM PST by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: odawg

In politics, there are no coincidences..............


57 posted on 11/05/2015 2:24:49 PM PST by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Junk Silver

I wouldn’t be surprised if the high suicide rate they refer to is mostly that of people who have undergone the surgery only to find that mutilating themselves hasn’t solved their problems.


58 posted on 11/05/2015 2:25:55 PM PST by piasa
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To: detective

And then one day for no particular reason, we became offended by everything.

59 posted on 11/05/2015 2:25:58 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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To: Starstruck

“Is paranoia a Trump supporter trait?”

Is being completely unaware of satire and being an asshat a Cruz supporter trait?


60 posted on 11/05/2015 2:28:04 PM PST by odawg
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