STATE SENATE APPROVES OPERATIONS BILLS

  

The Texas Senate has approved bills reauthorizing the Texas Medical Board and other state agencies whose operations were jeopardized by similar measures stalling in May.

Lt. Governor Dan Patrick

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick convened an unusual floor session after midnight for the move on just the third day of a special legislative session.

Patrick let the normally routine bills die during the regular session, forcing Gov. Greg Abbott to call lawmakers back to work so they could revive key conservative priorities.

Abbott has directed the Legislature to tackle 20 major issues during the special session, including a previously stalled "bathroom bill" targeting transgender Texans.

But work couldn't begin on anything else until the Senate passed the agency oversight bills, and Patrick's chamber rushed to approve them.

Texas House approval is expected soon.

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  1. You can accept people but not accept their behavior. Put another way, some behavior is sinful and should never be accepted. The person and their behavior are not the same thing. This is how a Christian sees it. A humanist simply sees it as hate or discrimination, as the concept is completely foreign under the premise of inclusivity.

    I realize that secular dogma does not distinguish person from behavior and that the golden rule is now twisted to be “Do unto others as they would have done unto them”. Moral authority does not exist in the secular world and it’s all about satisfying the fleeting relativism of now. It’s why the secular world and the spiritual world grow further apart. We’ve reached an impasse.

  2. Bathroom bills are nothing but vote pandering to a group of voters who spout rhetoric out of bigotry, certainly not Christianity. Christ taught us to love one another without reservation. We already have laws in place for prosecuting the criminal acts they fear, but hypocrisy prevails in low information voters to serve vote pandering politicians. We no longer have public servants representing the true needs of citizens. Happy to say I had no part in electing them.

    1. Should boys use girl’s restrooms in schools? Should boys play on girl’s athletic teams? Should they be able to use the girl’s showers and room with them on overnight trips? It’s basic common sense. Enabling and encouraging mental illness is not the way to demonstrate Christ’s love.

      “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female'”(Matthew 19:4, NIV).

      Jesus recognized that God created male and female with distinct differences for His divine purpose. Pretending some is what it is not is not how you demonstrate Christ’s love. Being honest with someone doesn’t mean you don’t love them.

      It’s so sad that progressives today have resorted to calling people hateful for disagreeing with them. It’s a false narrative that is used to shut down any debate or opposition.

      1. Amen! I couldn’t agree more! Christians are accused of “hating” someone just because they don’t believe the same as someone else. We’re not supposed to have an opinion; we’re just supposed to keep quiet. I am very happy to say I did vote for these officials and hope and pray they are able to accomplish what is needed.

      2. Just curious what you think is God’s purpose for hermaphrodites? And which bathroom/team/clothes etc. should they use?

      3. People don’t call you hateful because you disagree, but because you target specific groups of people for discrimination.

      4. And not accepting people is not being a Christian either! Thump the Bible all you want but you are being a hypocrite.

    2. Of course it is silly and a waste of time, because the entire premise is ridiculous. The notion that the rest of society must join someone in their delusions or fantasy is silliness, and we shouldn’t be wasting time, money, and effort on the “issue.” If someone does not wish to join in and participate in a man’s perception of himself as a woman, or a woman’s perception of herself as a man, they should not be compelled by the government to do so. It is very simple really, – women, especially young women, should not be forced by law to share restrooms, dressing rooms, showers, etc. with gender confused men. The notion that young women should be compelled to share their dressing rooms, bathrooms and showers with biological males is simply wrong. (Which was the effect of the edict of our “pen and phone” president.) Women are under no moral obligation to do so, and awareness of that is not bigotry.

      Such is the magic of progressives: they put forward nonsense; throw a tantrum to draw attention to their nonsense; demand that their nonsense be taken seriously, and demagogue anyone who points out that their nonsense is nonsense. It is astounding, but it is also baloney. If your neighbor tells you that she is the Queen of England, and demands that you begin addressing her as “Royal Highness” while bowing – you are under no obligation to play along. (Unless, of course, you live next to Buckingham Palace or maybe Windsor Castle, but lets assume you do not.)

      1. You’re right; bigotry would be obstinately insisting that you are right in the face of the facts without entertaining any other points of view. Like the factual POV of folks whose birth certificate gender does not match their current ‘equipment,’ but who will be forced to use a bathroom completely at odds with how they LOOK, how they act, and what they are equipped for. This fact apparently doesn’t rate airtime in the national discussion of this topic, but the logic of it is simple: it is not illegal for someone to receive gender-reassignment surgery, then dress and act like their new gender, yet not change the gender on their birth certificate, so under this bill they will be forced to use a bathroom that DOES NOT reflect their ‘look.’ For instance, it sets up a transgendered ‘biological’ woman who LOOKS like a man and is DRESSED as a man, to use a women’s restroom. How is that supposed to work?

        1. By this logic, if you feel like you were born to be a wolf running around free, eating raw meat, wearing no clothes and howling at the moon you must be a wolf, even you were born human. Heck, you even dress up as a wolf, gluing fake wolf hair, and ears on. You even have wolf teeth surgically implanted. Hey, you LOOK like a wolf!!! So you must be a wolf and since you’re a wolf and now a protected species, you don’t have to wear clothes anywhere, you can urinate and defecate where you see fit as well.

          A liberal would feel that just in case you don’t agree with the above then you must be bigoted, hate filled, and definitely not inclusive. You’re one of those heartless conservatives that’s morally authoritative, behind the times, uneducated, and refuse to ignore 1000’s of years of history.

          A liberal feels that shaming you with all these labels will make you agree that people are entitled to be wolves. If not then the liberal will work legislation so that you will be fined if not imprisoned for not allowing a wolf-human in your place of business. But while they’re after you, the spineless lib will make sure that ONLY their enlightened views are taught to your children in public school from Pre-K to college senior.

          1. What in the world are you talking about? I could give a fig whether folks want to dress like clowns, or the opposite gender, or wolves, or whatever. I think it’s silly, same as you and Augustus. I don’t think cross-dressing or even reassignment surgery ‘changes’ you into the opposite sex anymore than y’all do. I just want someone to explain what their plan is when they see an apparent man walk lawfully into the ladies’ room behind their daughter.

        2. You appear to be referring to a very small subset, those who have undergone gender reassignment surgery, of what is already a small population, -those who are transgender. The greater policy discussion necessarily goes beyond such a narrow example. The bathroom edict certainly was not so limited as your example.

          1. But the sample DOES exist and WILL be affected in the manner described; how are you planning to handle it when you see a full grown apparent man walk into the restroom behind your granddaughter?

        3. Pat, you want to know what my plan is when I see an apparent man walk lawfully into the ladies’ room behind my daughter.
          The apparent man will be confronted, not assaulted, but he/she will get my undivided attention until I get an explanation. If that doesn’t work then management and/or LE will be piling into the bathroom with the trans whatever because illegal or not, the perception is that a pedophile is after my daughter.
          These actions will continue until the trans problem stops presenting itself. Our culture used to shape mentally ill behavior not through laws or statutes but through ordinary interaction. We can do that again easily.

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