The University of Houston student newspaper reported last week that a customer confronted a husband and wife who wanted to dine at a Houston restaurant recently, calling them “terrorists” and demanding that management not serve them. The couple had committed no crime. They were simply Arab-Americans. Sadly, the newspaper reports, neither customers nor management came […]
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Celebrate with TFN This Week
The Texas Freedom Network celebrates its 15th anniversary at 7-10 p.m. this Thursday at a gala at the Bob Bullock Texas History Museum, 1800 Congress, in Austin. Please join us at our biggest event of the year! Purchase tickets or a sponsorship here. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRUPhIdE6-M] […]
Far-Right Clergy Front Group Reappears
Remember the Texas Restoration Project? That’s the political front group formed in 2005 to organize conservative, fundamentalist Christian clergy in support of Gov. Rick Perry. The group ended up being funded largely through a Houston-based nonprofit that itself was backed by more than $1 million from wealthy Perry campaign supporters. We haven’t seen much from […]
Once Again: Texas Tops in Fed Ab-Only Dollars
Once again, Texas leads the nation in federal funding for abstinence-only programs that don’t teach young people medically accurate information about responsible pregnancy and disease prevention. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced how much each state will receive in abstinence-only funding under the recently passed Affordable Care Act. Programs in Texas […]
Common Ground for the Right and Gays?
Last weekend offered two prime examples of how the political right’s treatment of gay and lesbian Americans is increasingly incoherent. As we reported last month, Texas Senator John Cornyn agreed to speak at a September 21 national fundraising event for the Log Cabin Republicans (LCR), an organization of gay Republicans. LCR has been working to […]
