3, 2015, voters statewide can give themselves tax breaks, pump billions of dollars into roads and make hunting and fishing constitutional rights by supporting seven amendments to the Texas Constitution on Tuesday’s ballot.
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As a result, the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance, or HERO, will be put before voters to decide. “That’s why we are encouraging every Houstonian to vote “Yes” on Proposition 1 tomorrow”, Rev. Jenni Martin Fairbanks said.
Those against the ordinance, including a coalition of conservative pastors, have said it infringes on their religious beliefs regarding homosexuality.
At an HRC fundraiser last week for supporters of HERO, Field – whose mother and grandmother were born in Houston and whose son is gay – was asked why she was supporting the ordinance. Copying a tactic used elsewhere, they also have labeled it the “bathroom ordinance”, alleging that it would open the door for sexual predators to go into women’s restrooms. Proponents stated 200 different cities in 17 states had passed comparable ordinances to bid residents local instruments, short of federal lawsuits, to fight discrimination.
Actress Sally Field has passionately denounced claims that an equal rights law would allow men to assault girls in the women’s bathroom. In an editorial endorsing Proposition 1, world-renowned pastor and author Rudy Rasmus, wrote “As a Christian, I am taught to love my neighbor as myself”.
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Tuesday’s outcome is considered uncertain, with one political expert believing the measure could be defeated.
