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Carona flip-flops, signs letter
backing Scouts' ban on gays
Republican state Sen. John Carona of Dallas,
who drew the ire of social conservatives when he
spoke out in support of pro-LGBT legislation last
year, has signed a letter calling for the Boy Scouts
to keep its ban on gay Scouts and leaders. Carona
joined a group of 51 Republican elected officials in
Texas who’ve signed the letter published on the
website of Texas Values, one of the groups that crit-
icized him for backing pro-LGBT legislation during
an exclusive interview with Dallas Voice in October.
“As state elected officials, we strongly encourage
the Boy Scouts of America to stick with their
decades of support for family values and moral
principles. Capitulating to the liberal social agenda
not only undermines the very principles of scouting,
but sets the stage for the erosion of an organization
that has defined the American experience for gen-
erations of young men,” the letter states. “Scouts
begin each meeting with an Oath, ‘to do my duty,
to God and my country, to keep myself physically
strong, mentally awake and morally straight.’ By
caving in to pressure from the social left, the na-
tional leadership would violate each of those princi-
ples.”
Four months ago, Carona became one of the
first Republican legislators in Texas to back pro-
LGBT legislation when he spoke to Dallas Voice at
a meeting of Metroplex Republicans, a gay GOP
group. Carona expressed support for legislation to
ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and
gender identity in employment; offer domestic part-
ner benefits to state university employees; and
allow same-sex adoptive parents to have both
names on birth certificates. Carona also told the
Voice he was “evolving” on same-sex marriage but
added that he was “not there yet.”
Carona’s comments drew backlash from both
Texas Values and the Texas Pastor Council,
prompting him to backtrack on the statements, and
he’s since been silent about LGBT issues. Jamie
McCormick, a spokeswoman in Carona’s Austin of-
fice, said this week the senator had no further com-
ment on his decision to sign the Boy Scouts letter.
In January, when senators drew lots to deter-
mine how long their terms will be, Carona drew a
two-year term, meaning he’ll be up for re-election in
2014.
It seems fairly obvious that in signing the Texas
Values Boy Scouts letter, Carona is pandering to
social conservatives in an effort to stave off a chal-
lenge from the right in the Republican Primary.
It’s a cowardly move, and the LGBT community
should call him out on it. Contact info for Carona
can be found at TinyURL.com/JohnCarona.
— John Wright
Houston lesbian's bike covered
with feces, urine in hate crime
Claudia Friedman and Christy Stewart arrived at
their Houston apartment complex Saturday, Feb.
16 and found Stewart’s motorcycle covered in ani-
mal feces and urine.
Someone had painted “Fuck you move your
dike bike now” on the concrete surrounding the
bike. The bike cover was destroyed, but the bike
was unharmed.
Stewart said she and Friedman left their apart-
ment in the late afternoon to meet up with friends
and returned to find the bike around 8 p.m. After
having lived at the apartment for three years with-
out any incidents, the couple was shocked by the
vandalism.
Stewart said they reported the vandalism to
Houston police, who are investigating it as a hate
crime, but without surveillance cameras in the park-
ing garage, the perpetrator is not likely to be found.
However, she said the writing looks like a female’s
handwriting and she and her partner have some
ideas of who is responsible based on past dirty
looks at the complex.
“Without witnesses, no confrontations with any-
one in the past, the police officer said there’s noth-
ing we can do,” Stewart said.
But that didn’t stop the couple from taking a
stand against the hateful message. They left the
bike parked in the same spot and placed a sign
above it that reads, “To the immature vandals.. .we
are NOT moving our bike.”
“We stood our ground and said no,” she said.
They’ve received support: from their neighbors,
who Stewart said have made it clear vandalizing
her bike was wrong.
“Everyone has been very supportive and dis-
gusted,” she said. “I think the message has gotten
out that they are the one in the wrong.”
Stewart said even though there weren’t wit-
nesses or cameras to find the person who vandal-
ized her bike, she said the situation has proved that
what one ignorant person may think isn’t how the
majority of her neighbors feel about her and her
partner. “It’s heartbreaking,” she said. “I would say
ignorance is the most violent force in society. But
you can’t fix stupid.”
— Anna Waugh
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