You might recall that Annise Parker, Houston City Comptroller, is in a run-off in that city’s mayoral election. You might also recall Parker is an out lesbian who would make history if she were elected mayor of America’s fourth largest city.
This, of course, makes the anti-LGBTers nervous. So nervous that they are launching a campaign against her specifically and entirely because she is lesbian:
The group is motivated by concerns about a “gay takeover” of City Hall, given that two other candidates in the five remaining City Council races are also openly gay, as well as national interest driven by the possibility that Houston could become the first major U.S. city to elect an openly gay woman.
“The bottom line is that we didn’t pick the battle, she did, when she made her agenda and sexual preference a central part of her campaign,” said Dave Welch, executive director of the Houston Area Pastor Council, numbering more than 200 senior pastors in the Greater Houston area. “National gay and lesbian activists see this as a historic opportunity. The reality is that’s because they’re promoting an agenda which we believe to be contrary to the concerns of the community and destructive to the family.”
She picked the fight by being lesbian? That, folks, is the same logic used by legions of abusive spouses — “It’s her fault I abuse her!”
But something tells me that Parker ain’t no victim.
(h/t to reader Adam.)
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