The Texas Freedom Network Education Fund is proud to co-sponsor with Equality Texas Foundation a special Equality Project Training opportunity for Central Texas activists on June 16 in La Grange. Equality Project is a public education and civic engagement program on policy issues related to the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) citizens […]
LGBTQIA+ Rights
How Extreme Will the Texas GOP Platform Be This Year?
Both the Democratic and Republican parties of Texas will meet in convention this week. Ever since the religious right’s takeover of the Texas Republican Party in the 1990s, the state GOP platform has been almost a manifesto for extremism. The 2010 platform, for example, calls separation of church and state a “myth”; insists on abstinence-only […]
Feel the Hate — Then Join TFN to Fight Back
Check out how Liberty Institute — the Texas affiliate of Focus on the Family — is describing State Board of Education member George Clayton. Clayton, a Republican from the Dallas area, lost his re-election bid Tuesday in the GOP primary. The sneering contempt is almost palpable: In the North Texas area, incumbent SBOE member George […]
RR Freak Out over Obama Support for Marriage Equality
President Obama’s declaration Wednesday that he supports marriage equality for same-sex couples has religious-righters practically foaming at the mouth. Here are just a few of the comments from right-wing extremists in Texas. Dave Welch of the Houston Area Pastor Council says the president is an enemy of God: “When marriage is everything, marriage is nothing. […]
Caving to the Demands of Religious Extremists
Their failure to dictate which candidate will be the Republican Party’s presidential nominee this year doesn’t mean that religious-right leaders and activists aren’t shaping this year’s campaign. Just this week, for example, intense pressure from religious-right groups essentially forced openly gay political strategist Richard Grenell to resign from Mitt Romney’s campaign staff. A Republican adviser […]
