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HOUSTON (AP) — An ordance that would have tablished nondiscrimatn protectns for gay and transgenr people Hoton failed to w approval om voters on Tuday.

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WHY HOTON’S GAY RIGHTS ORDANCE FAILED: FEAR OF MEN WOMEN’S BATHROOMS

In one of the most closely watched referendums the untry, voters repealed an anti-discrimatn ordance, handg gay rights supporters a stgg feat. * houston gay ordinance *

Hoton’s Equal Rights Ordance (HERO), signed to protect the rights of gay cizens and others, has failed by a wi marg — after a hard-fought mpaign which opponents warned would give male sexual predators accs to women’s Tuday, Hoton voters were prented wh this qutn: “Are you favor of the Hoton Equal Rights Ordance, Ord. ”Miller was talkg about protectg bathrooms — and the ensug mpaign, which pted gay-rights advot agast Hoton’s relig muny, got ugly.

HOTON HEATS UP OVER PROPOSED GAY ORDANCE

”Campaign for Hoton aired an ad featurg former Hoton Astros star Lance Berkman speakg out agast Hoton's gay rights ordance. ”Across the untry, 17 stat and more than 200 municipali bar discrimatn hog, employment and public acmodatns based on sexual orientatn and genr inty, acrdg to Freedom for All Amerins, a gay rights group that was active the pro-HERO who oppose such measur said the ti may yet turn.

As stands now, most of Texas’s most populo ci offer such protectns—the big exceptn beg Hoton (which, ’s worth notg, elected the first openly-gay mayor  a major U. A vio of David Welch, of the Hoton Area Pastors Council, appeared that gave the attorneys reason to believe some Hoton pastors were electneerg om the pulp, which vlat the sectn of the tax that grants church their tax-exempt wordg the subpoena was broad: It requted “all speech, prentatns, or sermons related to HERO, the Petn, Mayor Annise Parker, homosexualy, or genr inty prepared by, livered by, revised by, or approved by you [the pastors] or your posssn. Dan Patrick of Texas spoke on Tuday after the rejectn of an ordance that would tablish protectns for gay and transgenr Sullivan/Associated PrsNov.

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