State Rep. Bill Zedler Wants to Shut Down Those Grody LGBT Centers at Texas Colleges
The LGBT Resource Center at Texas A&M University, like its cousins at the University of Texas and the University of Houston, is an innocuous arm of school bureaucracy that offers an array of resources to gay and transgendered students. There is a guest speaker program, a lending library, networking opportunities, LGBT awareness events, information on counseling, connections to advocacy groups both on- and off-campus. Like we said: innocuous.
But State Rep. Bill Zedler, the Arlington Republican, seems to think these organizations are more akin to San Francisco bathhouses circa 1980. As the Voice noted yesterday, Zedler filed an amendment to the Senate budget that would cut funding for "Gender and Sexuality Centers and Related Student Centers."
He goes on to explain his reasoning: such centers "support, promote or encourage any behavior that would lead to high risk behavior for AIDS, HIV, Hepatitis B, or any sexually transmitted disease."
In a letter to lawmakers, Resource Center Dallas CEO Cece Cox calls Zedler's proposal "mean-spirited and discriminatory."
More at http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2013/04/state_rep_bill_zedler_thinks_u.php .
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