NFL Owner Donates $10K to Repeal Houston's LGBT Discrimination Protections

[Newsjock]

Source: The Advocate

While the NFL has been making strides to be more inclusive and welcoming of gay players and LGBT fans over the past few years, Houston Texans owner Bob McNair is running the ball in the other direction. McNair gave $10,000 to the effort to repeal Houston's LGBT-inclusive human rights ordinance this week, according to the Houston Chronicle.

As The Advocate has reported, opponents of the ordinance have focused primarily on the law's inclusion of transgender people, claiming the law will allow sexual predators to lurk in bathrooms to attack women. The claim uses transgender people as a boogeyman; no such crimes have been reported over the decades that LGBT-inclusive human rights ordinances and laws have existed.

... HERO supporters have warned that repealing the ordinance could have financial and public relations repercussions similar to the outcry after Indiana passed a "religious freedom" law intended to allow businesses to discriminated against LGBT people. Houston is set to host the 2017 Super Bowl, but supporters say repealing HERO could jeopardize the event.

Read more: http://www.advocate.com/2015/10/16/nfl-owner-donates-10k-houstons-anti-lgbt-referendum

[uawchild]

1. What a bastard. n/t

n/t

[Paladin]

2. Not a good move, especially in an LGBT-tolerant town like Houston.

But nobody ever accused McNair of being an advanced thinker on social issues---or much of anything else, for that matter.

[BdAzzSRT]

6. Transgender <> Pervert

It seems to me that you are attempting to lump perverts who dress up in woman's clothing with Transgender people in order to restrict the rights of true transgender people, and somehow make yourself less queasy.

And what if someones sexual reassignment is completed ? Are you still going to have an issue ?

The links/cases you supplied above would have happened with or without Transgender people or legislation. I don't see how they are related in any way.

[mercuryblues]

10. exactly

A man dressing as a woman to gain access to the woman's room for sexual gratification,(watching women pee) is not the same as a transgender person using a restroom to pee. Conflating the 2 is a disingenuous smear attempt. It is the same premise used to smear gays as pedophiles.

[bullwinkle428]

9. Oh Jesus Christ. "BUT WHAT ABOUT THE BATHROOMS?!?!?!??!?"

Here's a clue - sexual assault is STILL ILLEGAL. What you're trying to push here is nothing more than anti-LGBT bigotry. And it needs to be called out.

[n2doc]

4. Lame ass owner of a lame ass team

How's that plan of not having a good QB working out for ya? And that Clowney guy, what a difference maker!

[Zen Democrat]

5. Bob McNair is just another billionnaire with an opinion. An opinion that's anti-humanity.

I hope the NFL kicks his ass. Or, in the alternative, threatens the 2017 Super Bowl in HotTown.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

15. I hope JJ Watt "accidentally" tackles him into a hospital room.

[47of74]

7. Thank you Mr. McNair for giving me a good reason to root against your team.

[SpankMe]

8. How does one counter the bizarre reasoning on this?

The rule allows for sexual predators to go into restrooms and attack women? What's to prevent that from happening now? A straight, heterosexual manly rapist man is going to feign being a transgendered woman for a predatory crime? How likely is that?

Forcing local businesses to swallow their beliefs and celebrate sexual immorality? Is that anything like forcing women to swallow their reproductive freedoms and endure unwanted pregnancies and celebrating their subservience to men?

The man's a Neanderthal. He even looks like one.

[eppur_se_muova]

11. Injustice is not for sale ! Oh, wait ...

I was thinking of justice. Injustice whores to the highest bidder.

[fbc]

13. This guy, like his football team, sucks.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

14. Houston, we have a problem. Please fix it ASAP!

[Humanist_Activist]

16. What a piece of shit. n/t

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

17. Rats! I was SO hoping the owner was Marge Schott

I haven't thought about Marge in so long ...

[Jeb Bartlet]

18. Huh

today I learned that Bob McNair is a lying douchebag bigot. Looking forward to the news of his demise.

[TexasBushwhacker]

19. The thing is

the HERO ordinance protects people, at the city level, from discrimination of all kinds. It's not just LGBT. In fact, since it went into effect, over 50% of the complaints have been about racism, and the next biggest group is women. Complaints regarding discrimination against transgender are quite rare. The thing is, I was born , still am, and I've seen plenty of transgender women who were prettier than me. My guess is that transgender people use public restrooms all the time and no one notices.