TX GOP Rep. Sarah Davis Pledges Support for Gay Rights

Big surprise! The same Texas State Representative Sarah Davis who is fighting against the pro life bills in Austin (the only Republican to do so) is also fighting for gay marriage in Texas.



the following article is from DallasVoice:

Texas GOP lawmaker pledges support for gay rights, says party is changing

Posted on 08 Apr 2013 at 2:47pm

State Rep. Sarah Davis

AUSTIN — Log Cabin Republicans from across Texas met in Austin this weekend to share ideas on the Republican Party’s growing support for gay rights and how they could influence lawmakers in the state to back equality.
Members from Dallas, Houston and Austin chapters attended the first-ever statewide conference, as well as a few people from San Antonio, who decided they would try to start a chapter later this year.
State Rep. Sarah Davis, R-Houston, addressed a group of about 35 people Friday as the keynote in the speaker series.
Davis began her speech by acknowledging the audience’s “courage and the bravery that I think many of you have shown probably spending a great period of your life struggling with your identity and then finally having the courage and the strength of character to come out to your friends and family as a Republican.”
While Davis is not a member of the LGBT community, she said she understands what it is like, recalling when members of the Republican Party looked at her suspiciously when she was the only member of the party to vote against the sonogram bill last session because she believed it was about personal freedom and keeping the government out of the doctor’s office.
Davis said her philosophy is to vote on the basis of personal freedom, individual responsibility and limited government, adding that Republicans allow social issues to cloud their judgment when it comes to those ideals, including placing “what I believe to be inappropriate restrictions on your personal relationships involving two consenting adults.”

“It’s not the job of the government to socially engineer society. Government should focus on opportunity of outcomes and let people rise on their own merits,” Davis said. “And I believe that that applies not just to how you spend your money, but who you spend your life with. I don’t want the government in my bedroom anymore than I want the government in corporate boardrooms.”
Davis, who has volunteered with the Houston Log Cabin chapter over the years since she was first elected in 2010, said the group had supported her from the beginning, helping her beat an incumbent and then win re-election last year. She said her election is proof that the party is changing in Texas to become more inclusive.

read the rest of the article here: http://www.dallasvoice.com/tx-log-cabin-chapters-discuss-inclusion-strategy-first-ever-conference-10144315.html

Gay Rights Activists Bully Tebow, Christian University

from Todd Starnes of Fox News Radio:

Gay rights activists are demanding Tim Tebow back out of a speaking engagement at Liberty University just two weeks after pressuring the New York Jets quarterback to cancel a speaking engagement at the First Baptist Church of Dallas.
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Tebow is expected to speak this weekend at Wildfire – a men’s conference hosted by the conservative Christian university. His remarks will be closed to the general public.
The professional football player is well-known for sharing his faith in Christ – but in recent weeks he’s come under fire from the national media and gay rights activists for speaking in churches that follow biblical teaching.
Huffington Post called Liberty a “notoriously conservative private college with an anti-gay reputation.” And more than 10,000 people have signed a petition launched by Faithful America calling on the quarterback to cancel his speech.
“Liberty University isn’t just another conservative Christian college,” the group stated. “It’s ground-zero for a global assault on the legal rights of gays and lesbians – and a symbol of everything that’s wrong with the religious right.
A Liberty University spokesman refused to comment.
Faithful America said Tebow would give his “Christian faith a bad name” by speaking at the university founded by the late Jerry Falwell.
Several weeks ago Tebow canceled a speaking engagement at the First Baptist Church of Dallas – citing “new information” he had received.
He never elaborated on his comment – but sources close to the church told Fox News he backed out in part over the uproar surrounding the church’s position on traditional marriage – and salvation.
Pastor Robert Jeffress has been an outspoken leader in the nation’s culture wars – affirming from the pulpit traditional marriage and salvation through Jesus Christ.
The national media labeled the pastor as anti-gay and anti-Semitic – charges that were vehemently denied by the church and the many national religious leaders.
“To me, the real issue here is the controversy this has generated,” Jeffress said at the time. “It’s amazing that a church that believes faith alone in Christ is what saves a person and that sex should be between a man and a woman in a marriage relationship – that somehow those beliefs are considered hate speech? That is historic Christian doctrine for the past 2,000 years.”
Right Wing Watch, a publication of People for the American Way, suggested Liberty University was actually more extreme than FBC Dallas and listed a litany of alleged offenses.
They claimed Liberty University bans gay students and shut down its College Democrats chapter over the party’s views on gay rights. They also alleged the university hosted anti-gay conferences and that professors have made anti-gay comments.
Again, the university declined to address the controversy.
“If Jeffress’ anti-gay remarks were too extreme for Tebow, they pale in comparison to the things regularly said by representatives of Liberty University,” Right Wing Watch stated. “Perhaps it is time for Tebow to take another look at some of this ‘new information’ about Liberty.”
Huffington Post wondered if Tebow was giving hints about his position on homosexuality by making an appearance at Liberty.
“Due to Liberty University’s reputation for intolerance toward the LGBT community, some might interpret the athlete’s appearance as a tacit acknowledgement of similar values,” they opined.
Peter LaBarbera, of Americans for Truth About Homsexuality, is urging Liberty University and Tebow to stand firm – and warned that homosexual activists cannot be appeased.
“Their goal is to marginalize and to discredit Christians,” he told American Family News. “If he cancels this appearance at Liberty University under pressure from the gay lobby, I think his credibility is going to suffer a ton.”
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Texas Bill Seeks to Strip Mother, Father References from Birth Certificates

article from TXValues.org:

 

Bill Seeks to Strip Mother, Father References from Birth Certificates

Democrat State Rep. Rafael Anchia (Dallas) has filed a bill, with the support of radical “gay-rights” group Equality Texas, to strip the specific references to a mother and father from supplementary birth certificates for adoption. HB 201 would apply to all heterosexual parent(s) seeking these birth certificates, not just those that consider themselves homosexual, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, gay, cisgender, or pansexual. Stripping mother and father from supplementary birth certificates creates a clear conflict in the law and is part of the larger homosexual agenda to ultimately demand that all birth certificates should be stripped of mother and father references. Mother and father references in Texas law is the current standard for birth certificates. We firmly believe this bill will affect mother and father references for all birth certificates. Texas Values will be leading the charge in the coming 2013 legislation session to oppose the bill and all others that seek to undercut our family values. Watch our interview on this issue here.