TX Senator: Same-Sex Marriage Causes Poverty, Trans Rights Pose Threat To Human Race

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TX Senator: Same-Sex Marriage Causes Poverty, Trans Rights Pose Threat To Human Race
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by John Wright
February 25, 2017 9:51
Tea Partier Don Huffines Among Co-Authors Of Dan Patrick's Bathroom Bill

A Republican Texas state senator on Friday linked same-sex marriage to worldwide poverty, and suggested that transgender rights pose a threat to the survival of the human race.

Sen. Don Huffines of Dallas, a tea partier who is rabidly anti-LGBT, made the comments during a panel discussion on legislative issues hosted by The Texas Tribune. He referenced same-sex marriage in response to a question from an audience member about the impact of poverty on public education.

"The No. 1 cause of poverty, not only int he United States, but worldwide — most people don’t know this — [is] divorce," Huffines said. "The traditional family between a man and a woman is what is the ministry to our health, our education and our welfare. That’s just a statistical fact. Even the state of Texas will give you that. So if we really want to focus on poverty, let’s focus on keeping the families united and together. It’s a fact."

Huffines also expressed strong support for Senate Bill 6, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick's anti-transgender bathroom bill. One audience member who's a student at a Dallas university told Huffines, a co-author of SB 6, that the school has gender-neutral restrooms.

"There has never been an incident ever of anyone violating anyone in a restroom," the student said. "I would invite you to come to a university, take a look at what it’s actually like, and maybe get the party of small government out of the restroom."

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Huffines, a political newcomer, was elected in 2014 after he defeated longtime Republican incumbent Sen. John Carona. Carona was among the first Republican lawmakers in Texas to publicly back LGBT rights.

In 2015, Huffines authored an unsuccessful bill that would have nullified LGBT-inclusive nondiscrimination ordinances in cites across the state. . ................................



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[gopiscrap]

1. Ignorant asshole

the prejudice and stupidy in this country to so viral

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. Gosh. I didn't realize that there was no poverty until same sex marriage.

What in the world did LBJ declare war on?

And of course, as we all know, there were no abortions before Roe v. Wade.

Better add in case anyone would misunderstand.

[Vogon_Glory]

3. The gall of Republicans claiming that they're champions of the family continues to amaze me

The Republicans have been the biggest enablers of corporate policies that drive working parents to economic stress and divorce and the most hostile to such policies as maternity leave and day care support for working mothers.

[vlyons]

4. Homosexuality has been around for a really long long time

It probably has some sort of species benefit, or else evolutionary natural selection would have eliminated it long ago. We can go back to ancient history, for example classical Greece, to see that homosexuality has been in human society for thousands of years. Has the human species declined in numbers? Nope, just the opposite.

Ignorant people can think up all sorts of nonsense, easily disproved with a little THINKING, if only they would.

[ret5hd]

5. I wonder if he's of the same family that owns all the Huffines auto dealerships around here:

Huffines Chevrolet, Lewisville
Huffines Chrysler Jeep Dodge RAM, Lewisville
Huffines Subaru, Corinth

[Kber]

6. Also male pattern baldness

Just as much of a connection.

[milestogo]

7. Republicans are moronic assholes. Its a fact.

That’s just a statistical fact. The state of Texas will gives you that fact.

[Lucky Luciano]

8. I wonder when he gets caught in the bathroom with senator Craig. nt

[gay texan]

9. What. The. Fuck.

Seriously?