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04/17/2015

Court upholds Houston's Equal Rights Ordinance

by Jeremy Hooper

Finding that the anti-LGBT petitioners fell short of the signatures needed to put it on the ballot, Houston's much politicized equal rights ordinance is now law. Mayor Parker is overjoyed:

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The law will protect LGBT Houston from discrimination in city employment, city services, public accommodations, etc. But don't fear, anti-LGBT opponents who have wasted so much time on this: you still have every right to be wrong, to advocate wrongheadly, and to speak as much overheated nonsense about certain neighbors as you feel appropriate. Have a nice time; one must have hobbies.

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