Texas House Budget Amendment Forces Public Colleges to Promote Heterosexuality

[L. Coyote]

http://morallowground.com/2011/04/06/texas-house-budget-forces-public-colleges-to-promote-heterosexuality/

By a 110-24 vote, the Texas House of Representatives has approved a budget provision that will require state colleges and universities that offer gender and sexuality studies courses to spend an equal amount of money promoting “family and traditional values,” the Dallas Morning News reports.

Republican Representative Wayne Christian, the amendment’s author, cited Texas A&M University and other schools that have centers “promoting alternative sexual practices” as the reason for the measure. “I’m not treading on their rights to that, to teach alternative sexual behavior,” Christian asserted, adding that his measure only forces schools to match such programs, dollar for dollar, promoting “traditional”– read heterosexual– values.

“If they’re going to pay for one, they need to balance it with the other,” Christian said.

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