Stories tagged with: hero

• Houston voters celebrate 'bathroom ordinance' defeat

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

  

  Southern Baptist TEXAN photo

  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

• Pro-family voters score 'massive victory'

  by David Roach, posted Wednesday, November 04, 2015 (8 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Pro-family voters scored wins at the polls Nov. 3.

  Houston overturned a measure granting protected status to homosexuals and transgendered persons. Both Kentucky and Mississippi elected governors who are pro-life and opposed to same-sex marriage, and Ohio defeated recreational marijuana. Read More

• 'Captive' shows salvation, hope, redemption

  by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, September 15, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Academy Award nominee David Oyelowo was drawn to his starring role in the movie "Captive" because the true story of the 2005 Atlanta-area murder and hostage saga shows the power of the Gospel to transform lives, he told Saddleback Church pastor Rick Warren.

  Oyelowo, acclaimed for his role of Martin Luther King Jr. in the 2014 movie "Selma," in Captive portrays Brian Nichols, an accused rapist who escapes jail, murders four ... 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

• Houston equal rights ordinance now on appeal

  by Staff, posted Monday, May 04, 2015 (9 years ago)

  HOUSTON (BP) -- The push for a referendum on a controversial Houston ordinance has moved into appeals court, continuing the battle over sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes under the city's anti-discrimination laws.

  "We talk about the days of my parents when poll taxes and other things were used to eliminate the process of the voting for minorities," Willie Davis, pastor of MacGregor Palm Community Baptist Church, told reporters at a news April 30 conference called by the Houston Area Pastors Coalition. Read More

• Houston judge rules petition drive fell short

  by Staff, posted Wednesday, April 22, 2015 (9 years ago)

  HOUSTON (BP) -- The Houston Equal Rights Ordinance is now in effect, codifying protected class status based on sexual orientation and gender identity following a local judge's ruling April 17. Read More

• Houston verdict leaves both sides claiming victory

  by Bonnie Pritchett/Southern Baptist TEXAN, posted Tuesday, February 17, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  Photo by Bonnie Pritchett/Southern Baptist TEXAN

  HOUSTON (BP) -- In a Feb. 13 verdict that left both sides claiming victory, a Houston jury handed down a decision in a lawsuit against the city and administrators for their dismissal of a petition by a coalition of pastors and civic leaders opposed to the city's Equal Rights Ordinance. Though the jury -- in a 10-2 verdict -- found nearly 2,500 forgeries among the 54,000 voter signatures, they dismissed the city's allegations of fraud. Read More

• Plano petition drive succeeds, Houston awaits day in court

  by Bonnie Pritchett/Southern Baptist TEXAN, posted Wednesday, January 21, 2015 (9 years ago)

  PLANO, Texas (BP) -- Plano Citizens United, a coalition of churches and civic leaders, cleared the first hurdle this week in rescinding a city ordinance that legal experts said would stymie free speech and religious liberty, while opponents of a similar ordinance in Houston prepare to take their fight to court.

  With no preexisting ministerial alliance in place, Plano churches were caught unprepared when the city council, led by Mayor Harry LaRosilier, passed an ordinance Dec. 8 creating a protected class of citizen based on sexual orientation and gender identity. With help from the Houston pastors' coalition, opposition to the ordinance was hastily organized and a successful petition drive launched. Read More

• Pastors' HERO lawsuit to go before jury

  by Staff, posted Thursday, January 15, 2015 (9 years ago)

  HOUSTON (BP) -- A lawsuit brought by local pastors and others challenging the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance will be decided by a jury rather than a judge, a Texas district judge has ruled in a decision pro-family activists label a victory. Read More