Pastors Say No to Radical LGBT Program in Public Schools: "Not in Our City, Not Our Children!"

Lisa Bourne : Jun 27, 2017
LifeSiteNews.com

"This is Texas, where the people of all ethnicities still believe that our children are to be protected, nurtured, and educated, not used as a social experiment of a radical political agenda." -Rev. Dave Welch

(Houston, TX)—[LifeSiteNews] A group of Texas pastors said "no" to the school superintendent after he suggested adding an LGBT history curriculum in area schools, telling him that what might pass in San Francisco won't go over in Houston. (Photo: via LifeSiteNews.com)

"The LGBTQ movement in the U.S. has a history," superintendent Dr. Richard Carranza told a gathering hosted by the Houston Defender, a publication centered on the local black community, "and in many cases, many people would call it a civil rights history in terms of acceptance and in terms of who have been leaders of the movement."

"I think it's part of the American history," he said. "To include that as part of what kids study is just a bigger picture of who we are as America."

Rev. Dave Welch, executive director of the Houston Area Pastor Council (HAPC), responded that in Texas people of all ethnicities still believe children "are to be protected, nurtured, and educated, not used as a social experiment of a radical political agenda."

"Dr. Carranza, not in our city and not our children," Rev. Welch said in a statement. "The former mayor of Houston attempted to turn Houston into San Francisco with this same philosophy. Again, this is Houston, Texas, not San Francisco, California."

The pastor's Council had gone up against former Houston Mayor Annise Parker, who is openly gay, over "transgender rights" legislation that would have allowed men access to women's restrooms and vice versa. Parker had demanded that pastors actively opposing the bill turn over their sermons for review during the battle.

Voters repealed the legislation in November 2015 and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed the Sermon Protection Act guarding pastors' free speech in May...

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