Harris GOP chair accuses Mayor Parker of promoting ‘mob rule’ by extending benefits to gay partners

[TexasTowelie]

Harris County GOP chair Jared Woodfill says Houston Mayor Annise Parker is promoting “mob rule” and “anarchy” by extending benefits to the married same-sex partners of city employees, according to the right-wing news site WorldNetDaily:

Woodfill asked: “If that is what Mayor Parker thinks of law and order, how can she effectively serve as the chief executive officer of a large municipality, whose first duty is to ensure law and order?”

He said that if the city loses “the rule of law, we give into to mob rule and crony politics, aptly described once as the ‘Chicago way.’”

“Texas and Houston will not permit would-be anarchy to become the default standard of government in this city,” he said.

Woodfill and others, including Dave Welch of the U.S. Pastors Council and Jonathan Saenz of Texas Values, are threatening to file a lawsuit challenging same-sex partner benefits in Houston. However, one expert told Lone Star Q it’s doubtful that a Texas court would grant them standing.

Of course, the irony here is that “mob rule” is what happens when a tyrannical majority strips the civil rights of an oppressed minority — which is exactly what happened when Texas voters approved the 2005 constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

http://www.lonestarq.com/harris-gop-chair-says-mayor-parker-instituted-mob-rule-extending-benefits-gay-spouses/

Cross-posted in Texas Group.

[Kurovski]

1. Is this another story about a county chair taking to the crack pipe?

I think yes, it is.

[joeybee12]

2. Hey Woodfill, one of the problems of being really stupid (like yourself) is that...

...the concept of irony goes right by your flat head.