Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Why #Houston Rejected #HERO - The Mayor Was Right - It was about HER-O

by Kim D.
Mayor Annise Parker's true colors were revealed in her concession speech after the citizens of Houston overwhelmingly rejected her HERO ordinance. In a nutshell, she was majorly pissed and unleashed vitriol on those who denied HER legacy as a successful gay mayor of a major US city.
The sad reality is that Parker has been anything but a successful mayor. Anyone riding on Texas roads already knows how successful Parker has been.
She's been a wonderful gay rights' activist. She's been an awesome spender of tax dollars, adding tons of bike paths in a city where the majority of days are so hot and humid few bikers would dare to pedal. She's successfully defeated the right for churches to feed the homeless within the city limits while burying Houston up to the eyeballs with pension debt.  She's ruled Houston for six years with the iron fist of an activist bully, and 63% of the citizens slapped back yesterday to tell Parker "NO."
The MSM and social media will resoundingly agree with Mayor Parker. Democracy has no role in determining rights. It will paint Houston as an unfriendly, intolerant city, full of stupid bigots, swayed by Christian lies. It will encourage business, the Super Bowl, and the Final Four committee to boycott Houston and economically punish citizens for disagreeing with tyranny disguised as politically correct tolerance.
However, Parker need only to look in the mirror this morning to see the reason why her signature ordinance was defeated. The deception of HERO began with her.
  • The HERO ordinance was poorly written with deceptive language. Instead of "bathroom," the term used was "facilities" which is legally broad enough to cover any public restroom.
  • Once the Houston city counsel voted in HERO, many businesses and Christians read between the lines and foresaw the problems which would result if persons of religious conscience violated any part of the ordinance. 
  • Businesses and pastors in opposition to HERO successfully led a petition effort to temporarily halt the ordinance and give all citizens a voice on whether it should be Houston law.
  • Parker didn't want her ordinance on the ballot and instructed her minions to illegally scratch off enough names from the petition to deny a citizen vote.
  • Disenfranchised citizens, businesses, and Houston pastors took the issue to the Texas Supreme Court.
  • In an unprecedented move, Parker tried to subpoena and censor pastor sermons as part of the legal battle.
  • When the Texas Supreme Court told Parker either get rid of HERO or put it to a citizen vote, she intentionally crafted the ballot to fool voters. If you were opposed to HERO, you had to vote "yes."
  • Once again the issue returned to the court, who 9-0 spanked the mayor and instructed she could not use deceptive language on a voting ballot. The issue had to be crystal clear - if you are for HERO, vote yes - if you are against HERO, vote no.
Houstonians were given a voice and they used it. However, Annise Parker denies the reality of why her ordinance was defeated. In her concession speech, she claimed:

But here's the dirty, little secret that the mayor doesn't want to admit. Over the years the city of Houston has grown overwhelmingly liberal as more conservative-minded folks have moved out of the voting area. In the past 15 years that I have lived here, no Republican has captured the mayor's office. This means simply that in opposition to HERO liberals and conservatives came together in a bipartisan effort to strike it down. There is little doubt that the Christian community of whites, blacks, and Hispanics were motivated to go to the polls and vote against the ordinance. How exactly was this a "small" group? How was this based on "right-wing idealoques"? How was this the doing of the "religious right"? It wasn't.

 The defeat of HERO was about Mayor Parker but not for the reasons social media, the MSM, and LGBT supporters want the rest of the country to believe. Legitimate opposition to HERO wasn't about men being allowed in women's public bathrooms. It was about a public policy giving powers to a minority, denying the rights of a majority. It was about allowing city government to take over new forms of enforcement for federal laws already on the books.
The fact is that in the city of Houston, it is already illegal to discriminate via federal law. The need for HERO was for city government to enforce and economically punish businesses and religious institutions for not embracing every desire of the gay and trans community.  When a majority of citizens rise up and stop an overreach of a government entity, it must be because they are ignorant bigots, right? 

Now that the controversy known as HERO has been decided (for now - no doubt this issue will come again before the Houston city counsel under a different name), the next question is who will make Houston great again.

Democrat politician Sylvester Turner . . .
or Conservative businessman Bill King who sees no need for meddling ordinances and vows to focus on getting the city back to basics?
Will the same democrats who voted no to Parker yesterday vote yes for another democrat to create more ordinances to grab more power away from the citizens? We'll see if Houstonians were serious about that "no" when they go back to the polls on December 12th.

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