LGBT Discrimination In America

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Mayor of Houston, Annise Parker led the LGBT community into election night in Houston, looking to stop discrimination against people for their religious beliefs. LGBT is a loose group of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenders. The Houston Equal Rights Ordinance, which is a piece of Legislation that deals with the rights of the United States Citizens, rejected Annise Parker’s proposal to stop discrimination against citizens for their religious beliefs. Annise Parker wanted the ordinance (an authoritative order) to provide protection mainly for LGBT community. The opponents to Parker’s ordinance in the Houston election are a coalition of conservative pastors. These pastors are concerned about transgender men using women's’ bathrooms. The …show more content…
Freedom of religion is a right to all citizens of the U.S., and they should not be getting discriminated for the belief they have. Discriminating people for their religion is also right because, for a pastor of a Christian Reformed Church; discriminating gays, bisexuals, or transgenders should be allowed by a Christian Pastor, because that is going against their religion. Christian pastors should not be forced to marriage anybody who is part of the LGBT community. This hurts the Christian pastor’s first amendment, which is freedom of religion. The pros and cons are equal for discriminated people for the religious belief or whether they are part of the LGBT community. The pro to this issue is this, if the U.S. doesn’t pass a law for discriminating anybody from the LGBT community; any Christian Pastor has the right to not allow a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or a Transgender to get married in his church. This deals with the Pastors’ first amendment. The pro to making a law for discriminating anybody from the LGBT community is that, the Citizens of the U.S. who is part of the LGBT, will have their first amendment secured

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