Citing religious refusal of adoption rule, California bans state travel to Texas

[TexasTowelie]

Saying that a new Texas law allowing child welfare providers to deny adoptions to parents based on "sincerely held religious beliefs" is discriminatory, California's attorney general on Thursday banned state-funded travel to Texas.

The attorney general's office said in a news release that Texas' House Bill 3859 "allows foster care agencies to discriminate against children in foster care and potentially disqualify LGBT families from the state’s foster and adoption system." Therefore, California agencies, public universities and boards won't be able to pay for their employees or board members to travel to Texas for work-related trips, the state's attorney general declared.

"While the California DOJ works to protect the rights of all our people, discriminatory laws in any part of our country send all of us several steps back," said Xavier Becerra, the California attorney general. "That's why when California said we would not tolerate discrimination against LGBTQ members of our community, we meant it."

The decision drew a mocking response from the office of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican who signed the bill into law this month.

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2017/06/22/citing-religious-refusal-adoption-rule-california-bans-state-travel-te/

Cross-posted in the Texas Group.

[DFW]

1. I don't blame them

Our state legislature is passing some extremely evil measures, and I don't blame other states for not wanting to have any official business to do with our regime. I'm just waiting for Texas to take reciprocal measures. I suspect more Texans would regret having travel to California stricken than Californians would regret having travel to Texas stricken--especially in the summer.

[joshdawg]

2. What really needs to happen is that abbott, patrick, and paxton

need to be tossed out of office and some intelligent folks elected instead.

Larry, Moe, and Curly are geniuses compared to the three who are in there now.

[Lonestarblue]

3. Christian Sharia

Our governor and legislature love to discriminate. If Abbott gets his bathroom bill passed in the special session, we can expect to see businesses and other states refusing to come here. Votes in rural red Texas keep these jerks in office. They've probably never met a trans person and probably never will, but by golly those people won't get in their bathrooms. Meanwhile, as the legislature and the state leadership spend their time thinking up ever more onerous ways to punish women for having sex, the state has created a worse record for maternal deaths than some third-world countries. They're pro-life only for zygotes. And the traffic in Austin so clogs the major roads that rush hour extends to most of the day! But hey the Lege has more important things than education and infrastructure to deal with. Alfter all, if they don't police the bathrooms, who will!

[njcpa1978]

4. Bet they have.

Those red neck homophobes have met tons of LBGTs, they just don't know it or are too blind to see the truth about their sons, daughters, aunts and on and on. Then like Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio who was all anti-gay until his son came out is now Mr. 180.