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  • Houston voters celebrate 'bathroom ordinance' defeat

    by Bonnie Pritchett/Southern Baptist TEXAN, posted Thursday, November 05, 2015 (8 years ago)

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    HOUSTON -- Houston voters convincingly defeated a controversial equal rights ordinance that critics said threatened religious liberties and put into jeopardy the safety and dignity of men and women in private places like bathrooms. Proposition 1, also referred to as the "bathroom ordinance," failed by a margin of 61 percent to 39 percent.

    "I think it's significant," Ed Young, pastor of Houston's Second ... Read More

  • Houston to vote on equal rights ordinance
    by Bonnie Pritchett/The TEXAN, posted Thursday, August 06, 2015 (9 years ago)

    HOUSTON (BP) -- Houston's City Council voted Aug. 5 to put the controversial equal rights ordinance (known as HERO) on the Nov. 3 ballot after a vote to repeal the law failed but not before debate arose over the ballot language. Read More