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State Chapters => Texas => Topic started by: corbe on June 23, 2017, 12:01:15 am
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Citing religious refusal of adoption rule, California bans state travel to Texas
California state agencies, universities and commissions won't be allowed to send their employees to Texas after the California attorney general declare a Texas law discriminatory.
by Matthew Watkins June 22, 2017 6:34 PM
Saying that a new Texas law allowing child welfare providers to deny adoptions to parents based on "sincerely held religious beliefs" is discriminatory, California's attorney general on Thursday banned state-funded travel to Texas.
The attorney general's office said in a news release that Texas' House Bill 3859 "allows foster care agencies to discriminate against children in foster care and potentially disqualify LGBT families from the state’s foster and adoption system." Therefore, California agencies, public universities and boards won't be able to pay for their employees or board members to travel to Texas for work-related trips, the state's attorney general declared.
"While the California DOJ works to protect the rights of all our people, discriminatory laws in any part of our country send all of us several steps back," said Xavier Becerra, the California attorney general. "That's why when California said we would not tolerate discrimination against LGBTQ members of our community, we meant it."
The decision drew a mocking response from the office of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican who signed the bill into law this month.
"California may be able to stop their state employees," said Abbott spokesman John Wittman, "but they can’t stop all the businesses that are fleeing over taxation and regulation, and relocating to Texas."
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https://www.texastribune.org/2017/06/22/citing-religious-refusal-adoption-rule-california-bans-state-travel-te/ (https://www.texastribune.org/2017/06/22/citing-religious-refusal-adoption-rule-california-bans-state-travel-te/)
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California's attorney general on Thursday banned state-funded travel to Texas.
And I guaran-damn-tee you, all of the Texans whom I know will applaud this move.
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And I guaran-damn-tee you, all of the Texans whom I know will applaud this move.
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Idiots from the Land of Fruits and Nuts took over Colorado and look what it became. Make one wonder the motive of all the California Techies that moved to Austin.
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Our resident liberal has been busy lauding Federalism when insisting he doesn't want his state to have Texas-style gun culture imposed on him.
Interesting that when Californication wants their homosexual culture imposed on every state, suddenly federalism does not apply.
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Power corrupts and the Moonbeams think they hold the power.
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heh heh heh
Freaking Cali libs.
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Good we don't need them in our state anyway.
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:beer:
Idiots from the Land of Fruits and Nuts took over Colorado and look what it became. Make one wonder the motive of all the California Techies that moved to Austin.
Which is why Texans hope this ban is a promise and not just lip service.