{"id":54233,"date":"2025-11-18T08:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T08:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/54233\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T08:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T08:17:09","slug":"alert-arlington-city-council-to-vote-tuesday-on-special-lgbt-protections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/54233\/","title":{"rendered":"ALERT! Arlington City Council to Vote Tuesday on Special LGBT Protections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/txvalues.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Alert-Arlington-City-Council-to-Vote-Tuesday-on-Special-LGBT-Protections-1200-x-628-px.png\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Alert-Arlington-City-Council-to-Vote-Tuesday-on-Special-LGBT-Protections-1200-x-628-px-1024x536.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18969\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Arlington, TX \u2013 The Arlington City Council is meeting tomorrow\u00a0(Tuesday, Nov. 18th)\u00a0to discuss reinstating their anti-discrimination law, which includes protections for discrimination and the usual category protections for race and religion, but it also includes\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/txvalues.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Ordinance-21-035-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">highly controversial LGBT special protections \u2013 the LGBT language was the main reason the city<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/txvalues.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Ordinance-21-035-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">suspended the entire ordinance in September of this year out of fear of losing $65 million in federal funding from the Trump Administration which is threatening to withhold federal tax dollars from local governments with DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) and other leftists Woke ideology in local laws.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The city council\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arlingtontx.gov\/files\/assets\/city\/v\/4\/city-secretary\/documents\/city-code-of-ordinances\/anti-discrimination-chapter-suspended.pdf#:~:text=It%2520is%2520the%2520policy%2520of%2520the%2520City,national%2520origin%252C%2520age%252C%2520religion%252C%2520sex%252C%2520or%2520disability.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">initially suspended<\/a>\u00a0Arlington\u2019s anti-discrimination ordinance entirely for fear that language within the ordinance would be out of compliance with federal directives on diversity, equity, and inclusion and would put the city in jeopardy of losing millions in federal dollars. The suspended ordinance includes definitions of \u201csexual orientation\u201d and \u201cgender identity\u201d which conflict with current federal law and new states laws like the \u201cWhat is a Woman\u201d law in Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>City Council members will meet\u00a0tomorrow,\u00a0November 18 at 6:30pm\u00a0to vote on reinstating the ordinance in a way that does not risk the City\u2019s federal funding.\u00a0\u200a<\/p>\n<p>We need your help! Call Arlington Mayor Jim Ross and city council members and encourage them to:<\/p>\n<p>Remove the words \u201csexual orientation\u201d and \u201cgender identity\u201d from the anti-disrcrminance ordinance, if they choose to reinstate the ordinance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If the council members choose to reinstate the entire ordinace without removing the LGBT language, the City should find another way to stop any DEI and\/or Woke ideology and stay in compliance with state and federal law to avoid tax penalties and loss of possibly $65 million dollars in funding.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Ross \u2013 (817) 459-6122 <\/p>\n<p>District 1 Council Member Galante \u2013 (817) 459-6141<\/p>\n<p>District 2 Council Member Gonzalez \u2013 (817) 459-6143<\/p>\n<p>District 3 Council Member Hunter \u2013 (817) 459-6141<\/p>\n<p>District 4 Council Member Piel \u2013 (817) 459-6141<\/p>\n<p>District 5 Council Member Boxall \u2013 (817) 459-6141<\/p>\n<p>District 6 Council Member Pham \u2013 (817) 459-6143<\/p>\n<p>District 7 Council Member Hogg \u2013 (817) 459-6143<\/p>\n<p>District 8 Council Member Odom-Wesley \u2013 (817) 459-6141<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arlington, TX \u2013 The Arlington City Council is meeting tomorrow\u00a0(Tuesday, Nov. 18th)\u00a0to discuss reinstating their anti-discrimination law, which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-54233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arlington","8":"tag-arlington","9":"tag-arlington-headlines","10":"tag-arlington-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}