House Backs Krause Amendment Letting Student Groups Discriminate
by Patrick Michels / Posted on | 1 CommentThe House approved an amendment allowing college student groups to discriminate in their membership.
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Conservative Pastor Comes Up Short in Fight for Reckoning Over Same-Sex Partner Benefits
by Liz Farmer / Posted on | No CommentsAfter Pflugerville ISD became the first school district in the state to extended benefits to employees’ domestic partners, conservative residents and one particularly upset pastor made it an election issue.
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‘Only One Life’: Confronting LGBTQ Discrimination in the Workplace
by Emily Mathis / Posted on | No CommentsReps. Johnson and Villarreal authored duplicate bills, HB 238 and HB 1146, that would propose to prohibit workplace discrimination against LGBTQ employees.
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Senate Bill Would Finally Remove ‘Sodomy Law’ from Texas Penal Code
by Olivia Messer / Posted on | 1 CommentThe Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee took up Senate Bill 538 would “repeal ‘homosexual conduct’ as a criminal offense.”
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by Liz Farmer / Posted on | 2 CommentsRep. Drew Springer’s bill (R-Muenster) would withhold 7.5 percent of the state’s funding to any district offering domestic partner benefits. That, he said, should be about equal to the full cost of a district’s employee insurance program.
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