{"id":2107,"date":"2015-08-23T13:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T18:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2107"},"modified":"2015-08-21T15:56:45","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T20:56:45","slug":"houston-equal-rights-ordinance-ballot-wording-altered-by-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2107","title":{"rendered":"Houston equal rights ordinance ballot wording altered by courts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A Texas court this week rejected the city&#8217;s wording for a ballot measure that would determine the fate of Houston&#8217;s Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO). Instead of having to vote yes to remove the ordinance, it will instead have to be worded in such a way that a yes vote is cast for keeping the ordinance in place. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lgbtqnation.com\/2015\/08\/ballot-wording-for-houston-gay-rights-ordinance-rejected\/\">LGBTQ Nation:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The ruling Wednesday over ballot wording for a November referendum was another stumble for Mayor Annise Parker and efforts to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in the nation?s fourth-largest city.<\/p>\n<p>The Houston City Council last year adopted a nondiscrimination ordinance. It aims to protect gay and transgender people against discrimination in employment and public places.<\/p>\n<p>But the Texas Supreme Court ruled last month that conservative activists should have succeeded in a petition drive to put the issue before voters. The court now says the ballot language must ask voters whether Houston should have a nondiscrimination ordinance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman A Texas court this week rejected the city&#8217;s wording for a ballot measure that would determine the fate of Houston&#8217;s Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO). Instead of having to vote yes to remove the ordinance, it will instead have to be worded in such a way that a yes vote is cast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[131,246,245,96],"class_list":["post-2107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","tag-courts","tag-hero","tag-houston","tag-lgbt-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}