The lesbian mayor of Houston, whose legal defense of a “transgender” ordinance passed by her council escalated to a national scandal when she subpoenaed the sermons of local pastors, has lost her fight in court.
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday ordered that the council must either repeal or put to a popular vote the ordinance, which drew strong opposition for opening ladies’ public restrooms and locker rooms to men who claim they are women.
“If the city council does not repeal the ordinance by August 24, 2015, then by that date the city council must order that the ordinance be put to popular vote during the November 2015 election,” the ruling said.
The court also suspended any enforcement of the ordinance.
At the behest of Mayor Annise Parker, the city adopted an ordinance that forbade discrimination based even on a person’s “perceived” sexual identity.
The ordinance has faced opposition from a coalition of local pastors and others that gathered 55,000 signatures for a petition seeking either to repeal the ordinance or to allow voters to decide.
The city secretary stopped counting the signatures before going through the entire list, because she determined the petition had acquired the necessary 17,269 names.
However, the city lawyer intervened and fought the petition in court, arguing there were just over 2,000 valid signatures. The district court determined there were 16,684.
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2 comments:
See what happens when you put someone with a mental defect in charge?
"Gayness" is a mental defect.
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