Today Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law a deeply divisive and discriminatory bill allowing the use of religion to discriminate against LGBT Texans and others in adoption and foster care services. We just sent out the following statement. […]
LGBT issues
Texas Senate’s Preliminary Approval of HB3859 Puts Taxpayer-Funded Discrimination a Step Closer to Law
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 21, 2017 The Texas Senate tonight gave preliminary approval, 21-10, on second reading to HB3859, which would allow child welfare services providers that contract with the state to use religion to discriminate against qualified parents and children. Final passage on third reading is required. The House has already passed this bill. […]
TFN President on House Passage of ‘Bathroom’ Amendment: There Is No Moral Middle Ground on Discrimination
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 21, 2017 The Texas House this evening amended (and then passed on second reading) SB2078, a bill that had been focused on school emergency and safety plans, to include a measure that would open the door to stigmatizing and shaming transgender students seeking access to public restrooms all other students use. […]
Texas GOPer, Hate Group Leader Prays for God to Destroy Lawmakers Who Support LGBT Equality, Women’s Reproductive Rights
Steven Hotze, the head of Conservative Republicans of Texas (which the Southern Poverty Law Center last year added to its list of hate groups), is asking supporters to pray for God to destroy lawmakers who support LGBT equality and women’s reproductive rights: […]
Texas Hate Group Spokesperson Once Again Exposes the Lies Behind Anti-Transgender Bill
Supporters of SB6, the so-called “bathroom bill” that would discriminate against transgender people who need to use a public restroom in Texas, often claim they’re simply trying to “protect” women and children from sexual predators. The bill, they insist, has nothing to do with targeting transgender people for discrimination. But they’re lying, as a spokesperson for Conservative Republicans of […]