Posted on 11/05/2015 5:22:30 AM PST by BradtotheBone
HOUSTON (AP) — The landslide defeat of a nondiscrimination ordinance in Houston has stunned LGBT-rights activists across the nation. They're now bracing for their opponents in other states to seize on the successful tactic of stoking fears over transgender people's access to public restrooms.
By a 61-to-39-percent margin, voters in America's fourth largest city on Tuesday rejected a broad equal-rights ordinance — extending protections in employment, housing and public spaces on the basis of race, sexual orientation, gender identity and other categories. Opponents prevailed with a campaign that dubbed the measure "the bathroom ordinance" and raised the specter of male sexual predators invading women's restrooms.
The outcome was "a devastating blow to equality," said the Human Rights Campaign, a national group advocating for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.
"It's almost unbelievable that this could happen in a city like Houston," said the campaign's president, Chad Griffin. "But make no mistake: If we don't double down today, we'll face the same thing again and again in cities across the nation."
The ordinance lost despite strong support from many major businesses, and despite its supporters' arguments that serious problems with bathroom access have been virtually nonexistent in the 17 states and scores of cities that have banned discrimination against transgender people in public accommodations.
"This is a national game-changer," said Jonathan Saenz of Texas Values Action, which opposed the ordinance. He described the result as "a massive victory for common sense, safety, and religious freedom."
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Yeah, “equality” has replaced “justice” (”environmental justice”; “social justice”, etc., etc.) as the Left’s latest tactic.
They have access to public restrooms. What they want is access to restrooms that are not the sex they were born as. I can't believe I am having to type that sentence.
They want males, who still have all of their male appendiges in tact, to be able to shower with young females.
This is not about "equal" rights; this is about "special rights".
For about the past year I have found myself asking, "when did we fall down the rabbit hole?"
That goes for working Hispanic Americans in Texas, too. They are American-Americans.
Yahoo is always fag friendly. Any idea why?
Maybe fags are setting up transgenders as the unacceptable other.
Equal rights vs special rights. Whoa, amazingly perceptive.
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