Texas anti-gay leader Jonathan Saenz’s ex-wife left him for another woman

[Ichingcarpenter]

Mere months before Jonathan Saenz became president of the anti-gay group Texas Values, his wife left him for another woman, according to Hays County district court records obtained by Lone Star Q.

The revelation could help explain Saenz’s seemingly abrupt transformation from socially conservative lobbyist to homophobic firebrand.

Saenz, a devout Catholic, has been a right-wing operative in Texas for many years — working on abortion and religious liberty cases as a staff attorney for the Plano-based Liberty Legal Institute as far back as 2005.

However, it wasn’t until recently that Saenz emerged as one of the state’s best-known — and most extreme — anti-LGBT voices.

Court records indicate that Saenz’s ex-wife, Corrine Morris Rodriguez Saenz, is a member of the LGBT community who was dating another woman when she filed for divorce from Saenz in August 2011.

In early 2012, with their divorce still pending, Saenz would take the helm of Texas Values after the organization spun off from the Liberty Legal Institute, where he’d risen to chief lobbyist.

With Saenz as president, Texas Values has led the charge against not only same-sex marriage, but also passage of LGBT-inclusive nondiscrimination ordinances in San Antonio and Houston. In fighting the ordinances, Saenz has often repeated the debunked right-wing myth that sexual predators would use the laws to prey on women and children in bathrooms.



http://www.lonestarq.com/texas-values-president-jonathan-saenz-anti-gay-activism-become-personal/

[grahamhgreen]

1. :)

[nomorenomore08]

2. HA-HA! (in my heartiest Nelson Muntz impression)

Serves that dickhead right!

[MADem]

3. Oh, I shouldn't laugh....

Even though that's pretty freaking hilarious.

If the right one don't gitcha then the left one will! Catholic, eh? How's he going to handle that whole divorce thing? Ask for a dispensation or annulment?

[LuvNewcastle]

4. I hope his wife finds the happiness and satisfaction that he couldn't provide.

[tom_kelly]

6. She may have found someone who isn't filled with hate n/t

[bvf]

5. LOL for the subject line alone! n/t

[Enthusiast]

7. ROTFLMAO at you, Jonathan Saenz.

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[Ichingcarpenter]

9. NOT THE ONION

but I thought it was when I found the
headline.

[Enthusiast]

10. These people are beyond belief!

[GOLGO 13]

8. Bwahahaha! He's so toxic that he turned a woman to teh gay.

No. I'm sure she's a much more complex person than that, but on face value it's hilarious that the wife left him for another woman.

[Enthusiast]

11. Yeah. How does Michele Bachmann explain this?

[MineralMan]

12. Irony wins every time.

[sakabatou]

13. As Nelson would say