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Texas A&M Bill Threatens Funds for Gay Group
Newser ^ | 04/04/2013 | By Evann Gastaldo

Posted on 04/04/2013 1:02:17 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd

If the Texas A&M student senate has its way, the university's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Resource Center could soon find itself lacking funds. The senate last night passed the Religious Funding Exemption Bill, which allows students to opt out of paying student fees that fund university services they disagree with on religious grounds, reports the Eagle. Up until 24 hours before the final vote, the measure had been called the GLBT Funding Opt Out Bill, but backers broadened it and took out specific references to GLBT services.

One opponent of the bill called it "a facade to deprive GLBT students of resources to create a safe environment," but the bill's co-author insisted the measure doesn't single anyone out. "If you think this is pointing someone out, it is a fabrication in your head that you have created on your own," he said. Students, most of them opposed to the bill, crowded the senate chamber and overflowed into the hallway during the emotional three-hour debate, which ended in a 35-28 vote. The student body president must now decide whether to sign or veto the bill; if he signs it, it will be forwarded to the university president and CFO, the system chancellor, and the regents.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aggies; education; highereducation; texasam
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Gig 'em.
1 posted on 04/04/2013 1:02:17 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

I’m still amazed that a pervert group is even allowed a university-sanctioned place at the table at A&M.


2 posted on 04/04/2013 1:05:29 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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The GLBT club?

Why did they leave off the Q?


3 posted on 04/04/2013 1:05:37 PM PDT by mbarker12474 (If thine enemy offend thee, give his childe a drum.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Why don’t these mentally ill students go to ut, Austin, where they run the place, instead of irritating normal students at A & M?


4 posted on 04/04/2013 1:06:01 PM PDT by txrefugee
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They can just be people like everyone else ,they have to be Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered,it’s a mental Disease


5 posted on 04/04/2013 1:06:59 PM PDT by molson209
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The GLBT club?

Why did they leave off the Q?

I may have to smite them for that!

6 posted on 04/04/2013 1:09:32 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: Responsibility2nd
I stopped letting them take money out of my paycheck for the Community Chest as soon as they started funding gays. Then they had an idea...and said still send us money and we'll make sure it doesn't go to the GAY fund. Clever but I didn't bite and they never got asnother dime.

I give solely to St. Jude's Hospital now. Danny Thomas was a saint.

7 posted on 04/04/2013 1:11:07 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Give to Hillsdale.


8 posted on 04/04/2013 1:14:55 PM PDT by mbarker12474 (If thine enemy offend thee, give his childe a drum.)
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To: fwdude
I’m still amazed that a pervert group is even allowed a university-sanctioned place at the table at A&M.

Well, someone has to represent the Yell Leaders and the band.

9 posted on 04/04/2013 1:19:56 PM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Good for the Aggies and just the way it should be.
All A&M students should be able to select which student groups their money goes to and which groups should not get their money.

A Student Group Funding Checklist for every student.


10 posted on 04/04/2013 1:20:23 PM PDT by OKRA2012
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To: TADSLOS

You a tea sip?


11 posted on 04/04/2013 1:23:43 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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Universities should not fund anything that promotes Vice and sodomy is always a vice—as is mutilating your body.

Justice has to be primary at any public university, using public money-—to promote Justice-—which is a Virtue-—can never promote evil destructive behaviors. 100 years ago when are laws were Constitutional....there could never exist such irrational “clubs”.

Science proves not only are unnatural lifestyles , well, unnatural, but they are destructive to the design of the body and costly to society and destroys civility because it prmotes habituation of using the human body as an object for lust or mutilation.

Our laws are based on Natural Law Theory and God’s Laws-—the Supreme Law of the Land, and universities are designed for the truth—not promoting irrational, Marxist lies that there is no difference between male and female, etc.


12 posted on 04/04/2013 1:29:25 PM PDT by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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Nope.


13 posted on 04/04/2013 1:35:51 PM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

awesome idea: Give money to the groups based on how many join them.


14 posted on 04/04/2013 1:36:30 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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A GLBT Aggie...
Did you hear the one about the Aggie who thought he was G-L-B-T?
Turns out he was D-U-M-B!
I know the joke isn't funny, but sometimes the truth hurts!
15 posted on 04/04/2013 1:40:24 PM PDT by drinktheobamakoolaid (If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. Abraham Lincoln)
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Why on earth are poofters getting money anyway? They are free to poke around in feces all they want and it is free.


16 posted on 04/04/2013 1:42:08 PM PDT by soycd
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Nope.

So just an A$$HOLE then?

17 posted on 04/04/2013 1:45:14 PM PDT by r-q-tek86 ("It doesn't matter how smart you are if you don't stop and think" - Dr. Sowell)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Sure isn’t UT.


18 posted on 04/04/2013 1:52:51 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Sacajaweau

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19 posted on 04/04/2013 1:53:31 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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I'm DEVASTATED!!!!! (Sarcasm)
20 posted on 04/04/2013 1:56:16 PM PDT by ZULU (See: http://gatesofvienna.net/)
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