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Houston (LBGT) Equal Rights Ordinance fails by wide margin
Houston Chronicle ^ | November 3, 2015 | By Katherine Driessen

Posted on 11/03/2015 9:04:43 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee

Houston's controversial equal rights ordinance failed by a wide margin Tuesday, with voters opting to repeal the law that offered broad non-discrimination protections, according to incomplete and unofficial returns.

The hotly contested election has spurred national attention, drawing comment from the White House and the state's top officials. Largely conservative opponents of the law allege that it would allow men dressed as women, including sexual predators, to enter women's restrooms. Supporters of the law, including Mayor Annise Parker, argue that it extends an important local recourse for a range of protected classes to respond to discrimination.

Supporters released a written statement Tuesday night: "We are disappointed with today's outcome, but our work to secure nondiscrimination protections for all hard-working Houstonians will continue. No one should have to live with the specter of discrimination hanging over them. Everyone should have the freedom to work hard, earn a decent living and provide for themselves and their families."

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016election; bathrooms; election2016; elections; gaykkk; homosexualagenda; houston; libertarians; medicalmarijuana; notrannybathrooms; tedcruz; texas
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To: SecondAmendment
Houston TV coverage already saying this issue will be revisited again and will not go away until passed in some form!

The old "lets keep voting on it until we win and then never vote on it again" trick.

21 posted on 11/03/2015 9:40:41 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Dallas59

That is just really sad.


22 posted on 11/03/2015 9:43:43 PM PST by Slyfox (Will no one rid us of this meddlesome president?)
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To: jimt

Eventually we put liberals in cages or they put us in cattle cars. There will never be middle ground with liberals. They have one position on the switch. “Take”. Once people realize that and what it means to their lives, we will see progress against them. Real progress, not hippy happy feelgood compromise at an increasing loss.

Liberals understand instinctively what conservatives, for all the Spockian logic, do not. Compromise is loss.


23 posted on 11/03/2015 10:03:48 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Embrace Existential Cage Theory. Solutions start at home.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

This’ll be overturned by some Obama appointee somewhere.


24 posted on 11/03/2015 10:17:17 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: Jack Hammer
"This’ll be overturned by some Obama appointee somewhere."

Yep.

I'll go you one better and say that a GWB appointee will say that the voters had "no standing" to vote on the "right for grown men to strut around naked in women's bathrooms".

You know, because the Constitution *clearly guarantees* it, or something.

They'll probably cite the Third amendment in their ruling, because they are such eminently qualified legal scholars.

25 posted on 11/03/2015 11:11:12 PM PST by boop (Those aren't...credit cards...)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

The black robes will have the final say in this matter, no doubt.

The black robes will keep having the final say on this and other issues regardless of the feelings of elected officials and the people until they are told by elected officials and or the people to “sit on it and rotate”.


26 posted on 11/03/2015 11:35:01 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Dallas59
I nominate that one as Freak of the Week!

*RETCH*

27 posted on 11/03/2015 11:59:08 PM PST by HeartlandOfAmerica (How can God bless a country that's BUTCHERED 53 million babies?? Almost as many as ALL killed inWWII)
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To: Vince Ferrer; SecondAmendment

And “old” is the operative word. Here in sad sack CA the legislature has — in every session for the last 15 years — taken up legislation that would either make Kindergarten mandatory, or extend “public education” the the preschool level. They have been repudiated at every turn by public outcry against both ideas, but persist in resurrecting them again, and again.

I’m intent upon finding the political equivalent of a wooden stake to drive through their black hearts.


28 posted on 11/04/2015 12:52:35 AM PST by HKMk23 (You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
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To: doc1019

Not really.


29 posted on 11/04/2015 2:56:20 AM PST by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Norm Lenhart

That is now starting to happen. America is being taken back, bit by bit.


30 posted on 11/04/2015 2:58:41 AM PST by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Norm Lenhart
Eventually we put liberals in cages or they put us in cattle cars.

Not if we put them in body bags first. It's going to come to that.

31 posted on 11/04/2015 3:05:53 AM PST by Tonytitan
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Slap in the face to the sex offenders. Homowood must be spinning in their filth on this defeat.


32 posted on 11/04/2015 3:28:25 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: jimt

The sex offenders will ultimately win as soon as they find a judge willing to take a bribe and stand against natural law and the Constitution. The blackrobes are handing the country to the Marxists.


33 posted on 11/04/2015 3:35:26 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: HKMk23

It’s the tyranny the Constitution was supposed to protect us from - majoritarianism. We’re not supposed to have this much government at any level. Even the “government schooling”, though traditional, was parent managed and run.


34 posted on 11/04/2015 3:47:03 AM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Progressives: Oh, well. Now we’ll just find a judge to force everyone to do it.


35 posted on 11/04/2015 3:48:35 AM PST by servo1969
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Bathrooms should be labeled XX and XY.

You go to the bathroom that indicates your genetic makeup.


36 posted on 11/04/2015 3:56:32 AM PST by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

T(y)ranny


37 posted on 11/04/2015 4:23:43 AM PST by struggle
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Parker just told her supporters they would prevail on this one no matter what the voters think. The left never gives up; only the GOP gives up.


38 posted on 11/04/2015 5:09:52 AM PST by madprof98
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To: doc1019

YEP!!!! California marriage law overturned by liberal 9th circuit!!!!! Overwhelming win on the ballot by the people marriage one man one woman, but noooooo the courts knew what was better for us!!!!!!


39 posted on 11/04/2015 5:17:22 AM PST by Kit cat (OBummer must go)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

YAY! Now I don’t have to be a transgender lesbian when my wife and I go into Houston!


40 posted on 11/04/2015 6:04:38 AM PST by rfreedom4u (Rick Chollett for President!)
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