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Transgender 'bathroom bill' leaves Texas Christians deeply divided
Source: The Guardian
Transgender 'bathroom bill' leaves Texas Christians deeply divided
A bill that aims to restrict transgender people’s access to restrooms has split progressive and conservative faith groups in an increasingly diverse state
Tom Dart in Austin, Texas
Sunday 6 August 2017 12.00 BST
Neil Cazares-Thomas began his job as senior pastor at the Cathedral of Hope in Dallas in June 2015, only a couple of weeks before the US supreme court legalised same-sex marriage nationwide. It was an auspicious time to take charge of what has been called the world’s largest gay church. The fight for LGBTQ rights, though, was far from over.
Now Cazares-Thomas – who arrived via Los Angeles and England’s south coast – is among pastors taking a stand against a proposed “bathroom bill” to control the access of transgender people to restrooms and changing facilities in Texas.
Much of the energy behind movements for and against the bill is being driven by Christians, underlining the split between progressive and conservative faith groups and the relationship between religion and politics in an increasingly diverse Bible Belt state.
Liberal church leaders rallied against the bill on Tuesday, at an inter-faith event outside the capitol building in Austin. Two days later, religious conservatives gathered on the same steps to demand the bill’s passage.
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A bill that aims to restrict transgender people’s access to restrooms has split progressive and conservative faith groups in an increasingly diverse state
Tom Dart in Austin, Texas
Sunday 6 August 2017 12.00 BST
Neil Cazares-Thomas began his job as senior pastor at the Cathedral of Hope in Dallas in June 2015, only a couple of weeks before the US supreme court legalised same-sex marriage nationwide. It was an auspicious time to take charge of what has been called the world’s largest gay church. The fight for LGBTQ rights, though, was far from over.
Now Cazares-Thomas – who arrived via Los Angeles and England’s south coast – is among pastors taking a stand against a proposed “bathroom bill” to control the access of transgender people to restrooms and changing facilities in Texas.
Much of the energy behind movements for and against the bill is being driven by Christians, underlining the split between progressive and conservative faith groups and the relationship between religion and politics in an increasingly diverse Bible Belt state.
Liberal church leaders rallied against the bill on Tuesday, at an inter-faith event outside the capitol building in Austin. Two days later, religious conservatives gathered on the same steps to demand the bill’s passage.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/06/transgender-bathroom-bill-texas-christians-lgbt-rights
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unbelievable all this bruhahaha over bathrooms.
