The war on Christmas has started this year, sadly in Texas. Texas Values staff is at the City Council now. Tonight, the city council of Taylor, Texas (in Williamson County/Central Texas) will meet to take action on a 300-page agenda. Agenda Item 13 (pgs. 266-270), a new policy that disqualifies and essentially bans Christians from being a part of city-sponsored events including Christmas parades. Also, if a church or Christian nonprofit wants to participate in a special city event they will be forced by the government to adopt a dangerous and controversial LGBT sexual orientation and gender identity policy that is not even recognized in state law.
The language of the egregious policy says "Examples of requests that are typically deemed ineligible include...individuals, organizations...who....represent religions..." The city council plans to vote TODAY on this issue.
The city council's move comes mere days after the City of Taylor withdrew a sponsorship for a Christmas parade from a church-based Christian group while having a separate city-sponsored Christmas parade which included an LGBT group and Drag Queen performers. You read that right; the City of Taylor chose Drag Queens over Christians and churches for their Texas Christmas Parade. After intense public attention and media coverage, the city allowed the Christian and church groups to have a separate parade this past Saturday.
But, now it appears the city government wants to permanently ban Christians and churches from participation in such city events in the future, since they have proposed this new rule for the first time this week and they are scheduled to vote today!!
The Texas Values vision is to stand for biblical, Judeo-Christian values by ensuring Texas is a state in which religious liberty flourishes, families prosper, and every human life is valued.
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