Robert Pratt
Houston was the center of the most important political fights in Texas in Tuesday’s elections with a race for mayor of the nation’s fourth largest city and even bigger, the so-called HERO ordinance recall effort.
The Houston Equal Rights Ordinance was anything but equal rights. It was a city opinion-police scheme whereby businesses would face administrative trials and serious fines in each case the overly sensitive claimed they were offended. The ordinance was known by most sane people as the Men in Women’s Restrooms Ordinance, or simply Bathroom Ordinance, as that was a clear consequence of it.
It had been adopted and put in force illegally by Houston’s lesbian mayor and her Leftwing administration which prompted the former Harris Co. GOP chairman and friends to file suit. After all the wrangling, courts required Houston to honor its recall rules and put it on the ballot.
Houston voters said enough was enough and their action resulted in headlines such as this from the Texas Tribune: Bathroom Fears Flush Houston Discrimination Ordinance.
Houston voters said enough was enough and their action resulted in headlines such as this from the Texas Tribune: Bathroom Fears Flush Houston Discrimination Ordinance. They defeated the measure in a landslide of almost two to one. While the bathroom part got the attention, the ordinance was far worse as it effectively made it illegal for a business owner not to fully embrace and support homosexuality and a host of other so-called alternative lifestyles in the owner’s place of business.
The Left won’t stop, they’ll go back to the drawing board, reshape the issue and keep on pressing.
Houston voters now have a runoff for mayor between liberal Democrat state Rep. Sylvester Turner and Republican-leaning, whatever that means, Bill King who once was mayor of the suburb of Kemah. Electing King will hopefully slow down efforts on implementing the next bathroom ordinance in the Bayou City.
An outhouse in the back parking lot is probably the best answer.