Back in the 2011 session former State Rep Wayne Christian (R-Center) wasn't living up to his name and tried to pass an amendment in the state education funding bill that attempted to kill the GLBT centers on the Texas A&M, University of Houston, and University of Texas campuses by defunding them and banning them from being housed on campus. That amendment was dropped after Democrats threatened to scuttle the bill the hate amendment was attached to.
Fast forward to this session of the Lege. While Wayne Christian is (thank God) no longer in Austin, his idea unfortunately remains alive. State Rep Bill Zedler (R-Arlington) has picked up the GLBT hating torch left by Christian and filed an amendment to SB1, the Texas general appropriations bill that would cut state funding from universities that have 'Gender and Sexuality Centers and Related Student Centers' on the grounds that they 'support, promote, or encourage any behavior that would lead to high risk behavior for AIDS, HIV, Hepatitis B, or any sexually transmitted disease.'
The conservacowards in Zedler's office wouldn't return phone calls to the Dallas Voice for comment Why am I not surprised?
And in related news in College Station, the future homohaters in the Texas A&M student Senate continued their years long attack on the GLBT Center. A vote may be taken later this week on a measure that would allow Aggie students to opt out of funding the GLBT
Resource Center with their activity fees if they have 'religious
objections'.While Zedler's unjust amendment is aimed at the GLBT centers at UH, A&M and UT, in their zeal to legislatively bash the Texas TBLG community the women's centers on various Texas university campus may also be negatively affected by this unjust amendment along with the LGBT program at the University of Texas at Arlington in Zedler's district.
So for you peeps living in the Lone Star State and our allies, you may wish to get busy calling your state rep and letting them know you want that amendment to die..
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