[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]But to lose over 60% this day and age?

I have no words to express how heartbroken and angry that makes me. And all because of that STUPID Book.

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So sick of religious bigotry getting a pass because we're supposed to respect homophobic, misogynistic belief systems.

I'm in the mood to swear so I'll join you.

Fuck religion, fuck religious bigots and fuck the apologists who tell us to sit down and shut up.

I'm beginning to have the trace of an inkling you might not be too sold on religion.

Amirite?

They're called "Christians" and they always vote. Sometimes I want to be a believer, just so I can believe these bigots will be struck down by avenging jesus or something, but I can't. Nor do I believe in karma or that nonsense.
What I believe is these selfish, narrow minded bigots will be the end of the human race if we don't stand up to them. So we will continue to stand up to them.

It was a shameful thing.

And then I look at Jimmy Carter. I've never been able to reconcile my view of the man, whom I adore, with his religion. I can only assume he does some serious picking and choosing.

He said that it should be up to the states, whas the only time I was let down by him.

Here is the WP article I found: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/11/04/houston-decided-it-had-a-problem-its-lgbt-nondiscrimination-law/

I understand the religious scuttled the bill over hyped fear of trangendered men going into the women's bathrooms.

What the article doesn't tell me is:

• what was the HERO bill really helping with? (article vaguely mentions equality of access?)

• what was the real reason the religious lunatics opposed it? (I'm sure it's more than toilets)

[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]Texas is one of the states where it is completely legal to fire and evict people for being LGBTQ people.

The ordinance forbid both employment and housing discrimination on basis of race, sex, gender, religion, sexual orientation, and gender identitiy.

Exact wording of the measure they were voting for:[/font]

[div class="excerpt" style="margin-left:1em; border:1px solid #bfbfbf; border-radius:0.4615em; box-shadow:3px 3px 3px #999999;"]Are you in favor of the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance, Ord. No. 2014-530, which prohibits discrimination in city employment and city services, city contracts, public accommodations, private employment, and housing based on an individual’s sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, familial status, marital status, military status, religion, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, or pregnancy

[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]Here is a link to the original ordinance in full:
http://www.houstontx.gov/equal_rights_ordinance.pdf[/font]

To defuse the trangender in toilets red herring?

What I can't stand is the transphobia which was used to help pass it; shit I have seen here! My hope is it doesn't turn various minorities against one another. It shows their rights to believe are more important than those who want only equality.

When I lived there, it was a very open city...things seem to have changed with all the gentrification that has been going on.