Accusing opponents of the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance of triggering future teen suicides, the New York Times published an angry, hate-filled editorial in today’s edition. These guys just aren’t used to losing many battles on social issues anymore and it shows.
Are college students now writing their editorials? This one even stoops to using the word “haters” to describe the winning side.
Sometime in the near future, a transgender teenager in Texas will attempt suicide — and maybe succeed — because vilifying people for their gender identity remains politically acceptable in America.
The hateful rhetoric of leaders like Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is the latest, ugliest example. Mr. Patrick was ebullient on Tuesday night after it became clear that Houston voters had decidedly rejected a broad equal rights ordinance that opponents maliciously and misleadingly characterized as a boon for cross-dressing sex offenders.
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As opponents of the ordinance celebrate their victory this week, transgender people across the country are understandably reeling. They should take comfort in knowing that history will not be kind to the haters who won on Tuesday. In time, the bigots are destined to lose.