OneNewsNow: The San Antonio City Council is doing some
housecleaning to combine all of its anti-discrimination rules and ordinances
into one. The consolidated ordinance states a desire to adopt a
“comprehensive and expanded non-discrimination policy with revisions to
outdated terminology.”
According to Pastor Charles Flowers of Faith Outreach
International, the city leaders want to add two categories to the policy:
sexual orientation and gender identity.
“The ordinance also says that if you have at any point
demonstrated a bias – without defining what a bias is or who will determine
whether or not one has been exercised – that you cannot get a city contract,”
he tells OneNewsNow. “Neither can any of your subcontractors [who have
demonstrated a bias] sign on to the contract.”
Moreover, according to a draft of the revised policy, no
one who has spoken out against homosexuality or the transgender lifestyle can
run for city council or be appointed to a board. Flowers says the
Arizona-based legal firm Alliance Defending Freedom has taken a look at the
ordinance.
“They said they’ve never seen this kind of language in any
other ordinance in any other city that they’ve dealt with,”the pastor shares.
“It is unprecedentedly wrong – and of course the citizens of San Antonio must
stop it.”
Flowers maintains the ordinance violates state and federal
constitutions in terms of freedom of speech and religion. He is inviting people
throughout the U.S. to call the members of the San Antonio City Council to
politely voice their opposition.
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