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Houston City Council Approves Homosexual Non-Discrimination Measure 8/1/2001 Houston City Council Approves Homosexual Non-Discrimination Measure The Houston City Council voted in a nondiscrimination law that includes homosexual city workers. A similar measure was overturned by a voter referendum in 1985. The issue was revived three years ago when Mayor Lee P. Brown issued a similar executive order. That order was tied up in court, until just recently when the Texas Supreme Court upheld Brown’s order. Two attempts were made by conservatives to remove “sexual orientation” and other language specifying groups covered by the measure. The first measure sponsored by Councilman Bruce Tatro was defeated last month. “We ought to get to the stage where we treat everyone equally,” Councilman Orlando Sanchez said in the second attempt to modify the language before the vote. Lesbian Councilwoman Annise Parker, leader of the effort to pass the ordinance, dismissed Sanchez’s comments as “a nice sentiment that one might see on a Hallmark card,” according to the Houston Chronicle. The measure passed by a vote of 10-to-4, with Republican Councilman Mark Goldberg absent. Goldberg’s district includes Montrose, the city’s largest homosexual neighborhood. Councilmen Mark Ellis, Sanchez, Tatro, and Rob Todd voted against the measure. |
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