Texas Supreme Court Just Told Houston To Repeal Its Equal Rights Ordinance

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM

The Texas Supreme Court told the state's largest city on Friday that it must repeal Houston's equal rights ordinance or place it on the November ballot.

The Houston City Council must decide by Aug. 24, the Houston Chronicle reported Friday.

Houston's Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO) was passed by the city council in May 2014. Opponents quickly took issue with the protections afforded to gay and transgender citizens.

Some of those opponents then sued the city, saying City Secretary Anna Russell had certified there were enough signatures to force a repeal of the ordinance onto a popular ballot, but that Mayor Annise Parker (pictured above) and the then-city attorney had determined the signatures were on invalid pages.

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[SoapBox]

1. No Equal Rights for Americans!

[blackspade]

2. Apparently religion trumps liberty in some idiots minds.

[Downwinder]

5. My religion says there is no private property.

Earth and everything on it was given to ALL people by God.

Think that will fly?

[Sunlei]

9. no it won't fly and Ordinance violation fines, can volcano so high the town can sell your home

on the courthouse steps.

Houston doesn't have the $2,000 a day Ordinance fines like my tiny town does.

[Downwinder]

10. It seems to work for Cliven Bundy.

[Sunlei]

11. hey if you have good buddies in BLM (the Federal BLM) desert outposts, they make miracles happen

for their other good old boy buddies

"Miracles"like ignore fines for 20 years and let your semi-wild cattle destroy fragile desert lands wallowing in the only river water for 500 miles.

[Taitertots]

12. Of course not. You have the "freedom" to choose which 1000+ year old prophet to follow

From a list of pre-approved prophets. Each with its own pre-approved ideology.

[geek tragedy]

3. This seems like a mundane story about whether referendum

petition signatures were sufficient to put the matter on the ballot.

Unless I'm missing something.

[S_B_Jackson]

6. No, you're not missing anything.

Stop wasting tax-payer monies contesting the issue and just put the initiative on the ballot.

[Sunlei]

8. Ordinance not a official law, though the Federal 'Law' makes the Ordinance moot anyway.

Ever try to change a town Ordinance? It's almost impossible.

[Geoff R. Casavant]

4. Not quite an earth-shaker.

The City must place the measure on the ballot (I assume the city council will not repeal it), but the appeal of the underlying case is still pending. I am confident the City's lawyers will find a way to get an injunction preventing the results of the referendum from being given effect until the case is resolved. If the appeal ultimately affirms the petition was originally invalid, the referendum results will be thrown out.

[Sunlei]

7. how many faked sigs did that hate group collect? thousands