The Next Major LGBT Rights Battle Is Happening In Houston - and Conservatives Are Telling Its Story


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carlos-maza/the-next-major-lgbt-right_b_7898932.html?utm_hp_ref=transgender

The Huffington Post
Carlos Maza
Posted: 07/29/2015 5:28 pm EDT Updated: 07/29/2015 7:59 pm EDT

Houston looks set to become ground zero for the country's next major LGBT civil rights battle. How national and local media cover that fight could help determine how the rest of the country thinks about the next stage of the struggle for full LGBT equality.

For the past 15 months, the city of Houston has been embroiled in a drawn-out battle over its non-discrimination ordinance, which prohibits discrimination based on race, sex, ethnicity, military status, marital status, religion, disability, national origin, age, familial status, genetic information, sexual orientation or gender identity.
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Hopefully what people are facing in Houston with HERO won't be what gets played out with the recent introduction of sweeping federal legislation outlawing LGBT discrimination.  With Republican controlled Legislature I'm not too hopeful of passage, but at some point, the bill or a similar one will get passed, but hopefully without the lies that are being prevaricated in the anti-HERO debate.

Conservatives need to e educated that this is a Human Rights Issue, not just an LGBTQ Issue. JMHO