{"id":2220,"date":"2015-11-08T13:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T19:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2220"},"modified":"2015-11-08T07:51:32","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T13:51:32","slug":"houston-equal-rights-law-defeated-by-wide-margin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2220","title":{"rendered":"Houston equal rights law defeated by wide margin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (widely referred to as HERO) was rejected by a referendum vote, with nearly 61 percent of voters rejecting the measure. Via<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/houston-equal-rights-ordinance-rejected-by-voters-1446608809\"> Wall Street Journal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Known as the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance, or HERO, the measure would have banned discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, race and a dozen other categories. It was backed heavily by Houston Mayor Annise Parker and a cadre of national Democratic political figures, and proponents poured more than $3 million into the push to pass it.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters conceded defeat on Tuesday evening shortly after the Associated Press called the election in favor of opponents. Roughly 61% of voters opposed the measure and 39% backed it, with 96% of precincts and early voting totals tallied.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This defeat makes Houston the largest American city with not protection for GLBT people.<\/p>\n<p>In the analysis that i<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonblade.com\/2015\/11\/04\/houston-defeat-jolts-lgbt-movement\/\">mmediately followed the result,<\/a> HERO supporters blamed a lack of outreach to the African American and Latino communities coupled with the pro-HERO campaign&#8217;s lack of a unified response to the fear-mongering bathroom attacks that had been used repeatedly by the anti-HERO efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman The Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (widely referred to as HERO) was rejected by a referendum vote, with nearly 61 percent of voters rejecting the measure. Via Wall Street Journal: Known as the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance, or HERO, the measure would have banned discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, race [&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":[463,246,245,96,464],"class_list":["post-2220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","tag-election","tag-hero","tag-houston","tag-lgbt-rights","tag-referendum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220","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=2220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220\/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=2220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}