All posts tagged "Dan Patrick"
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Texas lawmakers pass adoption bill and anti-gay bathroom amendment
Texas lawmakers have passed two measures that will allow discrimination against LGBTQ people: a “conscience clause” bill relating to adoption, and an amendment that restricts transgender...
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Texas Lt. Governor threatens to force special session if House doesn’t pass “bathroom bill”
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is threatening to force the Texas legislature to convene for a special summer session if House Speaker Joe Straus doesn’t...
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Texas House Speaker: Bathroom bill “manufactured and unnecessary”
A bill that seeks to restrict which restrooms transgender people in Texas can access seems destined for the scrap heap, if comments from the state’s powerful...
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Texas Senate passes anti-transgender bathroom bill
Bill now heads to Texas House, where its future is less certain
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Ad opposing Texas bathroom bill tells people to “pee with LGBT”
Ad warns Texans of backlash that North Carolina faced after it passed the controversial anti-LGBTQ HB 2 law
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Opponents of anti-trans bathroom bill unleash fury on Texas Lt. Governor
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) is under siege from a deluge of phone calls, emails or letters opposing his pet project, the so-called “Texas...
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Texas planning two anti-LGBT bills for next year
Bill repealing LGBT protections and an anti-trans "bathroom bill" are among Texas Republicans' top priorities
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Texas small business owners sign letter opposing anti-LGBT legislation
Small business owners in the Lone Star State are issuing a warning to any lawmakers that might want to push through any laws that discriminate...
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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick tweets vile message after Orlando shootings
Texas Republican tweets "reap what you sow" after 50 people slain in LGBT nightclub
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Conservative Dallas suburb rejects anti-transgender restroom law
LGBT Texans scored a small but meaningful victory this week after an anti-transgender law failed to gain enough votes to even be considered by the...
