State Rep. Wayne Christian, R-Center, says he doesn’t know what the impact of his anti-gay budget amendment would be: “Ask the attorneys,” he says.
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1. Texas A&M Student Body President Jacob Robinson has vetoed an anti-gay measure passed by the Student Senate last week aimed at slashing funding for the school’s LGBT resource center. The Student Senate voted 22-21 in favor of the bill supporting a state budget amendment by Rep. Wayne Christian, R-Center, that would require schools with LGBT resource centers to spend an equal amount on centers for “family and traditional values.” Meanwhile, Christian told the American Independent that he doesn’t even know what the impact of his budget amendment would be: “I am interested in finding out the legal opinion — does our bill also instruct them with what to do with private funds? I am not sure, that’s something to ask attorneys, so no, I don’t know the answer.” How do you introduce a budget amendment without even knowing what its impact will be? What kind of fiscal responsibility is that? The sad part is, the amendment passed the Texas House by a vote of 110-24. The state Senate is expected to take up the appropriations bill, with Christian’s amendment attached, this week.
2. A San Antonio man who unsuccessfully tried to use the gay panic defense was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday for fatally slashing the throat of a retired teacher with a cheese knife. Augustine Sauceda, 23, claims to be straight and says he committed the crime because the victim, 56-year-old Joe Ramon Jr., started groping him and wouldn’t take no for an answer. But that didn’t explain why Sauceda initially told police he was bisexual and had been at a gay bar the night before the murder. It also didn’t explain the fact that Ramon’s DNA was found on the victim’s flat-screen TV, suggesting that the real motive for the crime was robbery. In any case, 30 years still seems like a pretty light sentence, especially given that Sauceda will be eligible for parole after 15? Would he have gotten more time if the victim was straight?
3. Dallas police aren’t releasing any additional information about the murder of a gay Lake Highlands couple found dead inside their burned apartment early Wednesday. The victims names are being withheld pending positive identification of their bodies by the medical examiner, and authorities are still searching for a missing vehicle belonging to one of the victims. Police also continue to say that while they don’t believe the murders were a hate crime, they don’t really know what the motive was.
…”the gay panic defense”?
Surely not even a jury of Texans would buy into that nonsense.
Am glad at least one person on campus at A&M had the sense to veto something that controversial and wrong….
Oh my God, these laws are an embarrassment to Texas. If anything, you’d have to pump more money into LGBT centers to match all the funding that everyone else already gets to denigrate gays. Last time I checked, heterosexuality wasn’t under attack, people. He’s just setting up the state to persecute more gays, and that’s awful.
But in the twisted minds of some christians , heterosexuality and christianity are being attacked.
Witness the head of “watchmen on the walls”, a gay hate group. Scott Lively, head of that group is one of the people behind the law in Uganda to genocide gay people.
and he opened a ‘coffee shop: disguised as a church near a high school in springfield , MA. Hiring a guy who police discovered is a former inmate jailed for molesting children.
It takes one to know one. If you google “southern baptists and child molestation” you will find tha its almost as if being a molester is a job requirement for a SB minister.
Same as the catholic church and their priests. who when discovered were not dragged to the police in chains………….but instead were mvoed to new locations, where unknown they continued their crimes.
Hitler, a still UNexcommunicated catholoic and the worlds worst murderer threw the gays in the ovens with the jews and others.
Wonder why – go to http://www.nobeliefs.com/nazis.htm and all the pieces will come together.