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Texoblogosphere: Week of June 15th

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The Texas Progressive Alliance is binged out on the Women's World Cup as it brings you this week's roundup. Off the Kuff tries to predict how County Clerks and AG Ken Paxton will react to a SCOTUS ruling in favor of marriage equality. Libby Shaw at Texas Kaos and contributing to Daily Kos … Continue Reading ››
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GOP Leaders File Amicus Brief Supporting Marriage Equality

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In what can only be interpreted as a visible sign of progress, several prominent Republicans have filed an Amicus Brief to the Supreme Court stating that they support marriage equality for the whole United States. Here's the story from Time magazine...
More than 300 veteran Republican lawmakers, operatives and consultants have filed a friend of the … Continue Reading ››
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Greg Abbott: LGBT Texans Aren’t Stable Enough For Marriage

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Marriage in most families is a momentous occasion, and for those that choose to walk down the aisle, it marks the beginning of a new life for the wedded couple.  Marriages form a backbone of not only family history, but American history as well.  But for LGBT Texans that treasured history is being not only … Continue Reading ››
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Fringe Right LIES To Thwart Houston NDO

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It appears as though the far-right is moving to try and stop Houston's Non-Discrimination Ordinance from passing Council.  Here's an email received today from Steven Hotze, President of the Conservative Republicans of Texas.  In an effort to enrage their supporters, they've renamed the planned NDO the 'Sexual Predator Protection Act'...
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Arizona SB1062 is Gone. What’s Next??

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Don't get me wrong... I'm glad that Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has spared her state a bitter set of legal battles by vetoing a controversial bill aimed at codifying discrimination under the guise of freedom of religion. It was a terrible piece of legislation, and everyone from the Progressive community to business leaders … Continue Reading ››
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Free Press Equality Fest: Macklemore and Annise Parker

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Perhaps Texas progressives and supporters LGBT equality are approaching our goals from the wrong angle. Maybe what we need is a little less pounding pavement and a little more poppin' tags.

Take the spectacular events at this weekend's Free Press Summer Fest in Houston. The two day event (which has … Continue Reading ››
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Preacher exposes eerie similarities between fight for segregation, gay rights

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Appearing before a city council meeting in Springfield, Missouri, Dr. Phil Snyder, an area preacher draws stunning similarities between the arguments we hear today against LGBT equality, and the ones from yesteryear against segregation. He proves, like we suspected, that those arguments are virtually identical.

After changing the words "Racial integration" … Continue Reading ››