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Texas House votes to allow university groups to ignore non-discrimination policies
AUSTIN — The Texas state House of Representatives on Wednesday voted in favor of a bill to allow student organizations at any of the state’s public universities to discriminate in their membership practices.
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Student gov’t candidate targeted in anti-gay smear campaign wins election
HOUSTON — A student government candidate at University of Houston-Downtown, who was the subject of an anti-gay smear campaign that also revealed his HIV status, has been elected student body vice-president.
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Rick Perry urges Boy Scouts to oppose gay ‘pop culture’ like Sam Houston resisted slavery
Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas) appeared in the Family Research Council’s “Stand With Scouts Sunday” webcast last night where he told FRC president Tony Perkins that the Boy Scouts of America must resist those trying to “tear apart” the organization’s values and replace them with the “flavor of the month”—homosexuality.
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Texas AG’s opinion on same-sex partner benefits doesn’t worry cities, counties
EL PASO, Texas — Cities and counties that offer same-sex partner health benefits don’t anticipate altering their policies after the Texas attorney general called the practice unconstitutional, though his opinion does serve as fuel for litigation against entities providing benefits to gay couples.
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Dallas mayor says resolution to support marriage equality is a waste of time
Dallas mayor Mike Rawlings said Wednesday that a proposed city council resolution supporting marriage equality is a political distraction and a waste of the council’s time.
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Texas Attorney General: Same-sex marriage benefits unconstitutional
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has issued an opinion stating that local governments and school districts that offer marriage benefits to same-sex partners are violating the state constitution.
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Texas Senate committee votes to repeal state’s anti-gay sodomy law
AUSTIN, Texas — The Senate Criminal Justice Committee voted on Wednesday to repeal the state’s anti-gay sodomy law, a decade after the U.S. Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional.
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Texas Senate committee advances bill to equalize protections for gay teens
AUSTIN, Texas — Parents of gay teens urged Texas lawmakers on Tuesday to give their children the same legal protection as heterosexuals when it comes to prosecuting sex crimes — pleas that helped push a key Senate committee to cast a vote bucking the state’s long history of opposing the expansion of gay rights.
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Texas lawmakers consider new legal protections for sexually active gay teens
AUSTIN, Texas — In Texas, where attempts to expand gay rights have run into strong opposition from Republican leaders, state lawmakers are considering new legal protections for sexually active gay teens.
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Texas A&M student president vetoes LGBT funding ‘opt-out’ bill
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — The student body president at Texas A&M University on Friday vetoed a religious freedom bill passed by the student senate earlier this week that opponents said had only one intent — defunding the LGBT student center.