Hate Leaders deliver signatures seeking repeal Houston's Non-Discrimination Ordinance

After Houston passed the non-discrimination ordinance, religious leaders vowed to force the issue on a November vote. Well, they claim to have more than enough signatures to it.

A group of bigots turned in more than 50,000 signatures within the 30-day window of the ordinance's passing. They have to have 30,000 registered Houston voters for it to move forward.

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"It has been shown and demonstrated that the people of the city do not want this ordinance," said pastor Max Miller, of the Baptist Ministers Association of Houston and Vicinity. "We simply say: Allow the people to vote on this ordinance."

Staff in the city secretary's office will have 30 days to verify the petitions, said Mayor Annise Parker, who pledged to fight the effort to overturn the ordinance should it make the November ballot.

"This was not a narrowly focused, special-interest ordinance," said Parker, the first openly lesbian mayor of a major American city. "This is something that the business and civic community of Houston was firmly behind and we fully expect if there is a campaign that it will be a spirited campaign, but we'll have the same outcome in November as we had around the council table."

This is silly. These so-called leaders are nothing but bigots in disguise.

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