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- CHAMPN OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AIMS TO BE TEXAS' FIRST OPENLY GAY SENATOR
- TED CZ SAYS TEXAS SHOULD REPEAL BAN ON GAY SEX
- NEW TEXAS BILL WOULD FORCE SCHOOL TO OUT GAY STUNTS TO THEIR PARENTS, CRICS SAY
- FOR THE FIRST TIME, TEXAS VOTERS SEND MLIMS AND OPENLY GAY BLACK MEN TO LEGISLATURE
- SWEEPG ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL CLOSER TO BEG LAW AFTER TEXAS SENATE PASSAGE
- TEXAS SENATE ADVANC STRICT ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
CHAMPN OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AIMS TO BE TEXAS' FIRST OPENLY GAY SENATOR
AUSTIN — The man who sued Texas to overturn the state's ban on gay marriage will n for Senate as a Democrat, vyg for the seat that reprents... * gay texas senator *
“I’m kd of done talkg about bashg on the gay muny, ” Phelan told The Texas Tribune then. 8 ln people who are lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr, acrdg to the Public Policy Instute of California.
Conservativ have sought to beat back that progrs, patg LGBTQ people as “groomers” and pedophil who want to “doctrate” children — which experts say are old anti-gay and anti-trans trop. The Texas GOP platform clar “homosexualy is an abnormal liftyle choice” and oppos “all efforts to validate transgenr inty. It was that climate that Phelan ma his ments about not bashg the gay muny.
TED CZ SAYS TEXAS SHOULD REPEAL BAN ON GAY SEX
AUSTIN — U.S. Sen. Ted Cz says Texas should repeal a s-old state law that crimaliz gay sex. “Consentg adults should be able to do what they wish... * gay texas senator *
It mirrors a Florida bill dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law, but expands rtrictns to 12th gra.
Hodg that stat n’t ban same-sex marriag, clarg that gay, lbian and bisexual Amerins have a nstutnal right to marry. The bill would not force stat that currently have unenforceable bans on same-sex marriage, like Texas, to offer marriage certifit to gay, lbian and bisexual upl if Obergefell is overturned. Cornyn told reporters on Tuday that he would not support the bill bee gay marriage “is already a Constutnal right.
NEW TEXAS BILL WOULD FORCE SCHOOL TO OUT GAY STUNTS TO THEIR PARENTS, CRICS SAY
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Wa, amid fears that the urt might rensir nstutnal protectns for gay marriage. AUSTIN — The man who sued to overturn Texas' ban on gay marriage will n for the state Senate as a Democrat, vyg for the seat that reprents much of Coll County. "When I was acceptg the fact that I was gay, there were two thgs I kd of thought I had to give up: one, gettg married, and two, nng for polil office, " Phariss said Tuday.
FOR THE FIRST TIME, TEXAS VOTERS SEND MLIMS AND OPENLY GAY BLACK MEN TO LEGISLATURE
If Phariss were to advance to the general electn and w, he'd be Texas' first openly gay state Senate District 8 seat opened up when GOP cumbent Van Taylor cid to n for Congrs. The district enpass much of Coll County, cludg parts of Allen, Fris, McKney, Plano and a news release announcg his ndidacy, Phariss touted the endorsements of former Hog Secretary Julián Castro and Jim Obergefell, the man whose su overturned bans on gay marriage natnwi. "I'm absolutely gay.
So even those who vote agast me — even those who vote agast me bee I'm gay, I will want to listen to them and reprent them. Ted Cz says Texas should repeal a s-old state law that crimaliz gay sex.
SWEEPG ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL CLOSER TO BEG LAW AFTER TEXAS SENATE PASSAGE
“Consentg adults should be able to do what they wish their private sexual activy, and ernment has no bs their bedrooms, ” Cz’s spokman told The Dallas Morng remarks make Cz the most proment Texas Republin to ll for the repeal of one of the state’s longstandg anti-LGBT lawmakers Texas banned “homosexual nduct” nearly 50 years ago.
TEXAS SENATE ADVANC STRICT ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
Related:'Homosexual nduct' was illegal 15 years ago. But Cz’s stance shows that, even among some on the far right, crimalizg nsensual gay sex go too activists say his support is ltle more than lip service when nsirg the mounta of attacks lbian, gay, bisexual and, pecially, transgenr Texans are currently weatherg. In 2009, for example, two men who kissed an El Paso rtrant were asked to leave and told they were vlatg the state’s ban on homosexual Democrats have tried to repeal the law every ssn sce the Supreme Court’s lg.
Da Phelan praised Donald Tmp for pledgg to advote agast foreign laws that crimalize homosexualy. When a Democratic legislator then asked whether Phelan would also support removg Texas’ ban on gay sex, he said he supported an “omnib crimalizatn bill next ssn. Cornyn cricized the Supreme Court’s lg 2004 bee he rrectly predicted would someday jtify legal gay marriage, which he lled “a rather omo succsn of events.