In a rather heated session Wednesday night, the student senate at Texas A&M University passed a “Religious Funding Exemption Bill” that was originally aimed at allowing students to opt out of funding the school’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Resource Center for religious reasons. The controversy over the center is the latest clash over sexuality at a university that has seen decades of conflict over gay rights.Though the bill did not specifically name the school’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center, which uses the atypical, guys-first acronym GLBT, Scott Bowen, the speaker of the student senate, said it evolved from another bill that “specifically referenced the GLBT Resource Center.” According to Bowen, who did not vote on the bill because of his role as speaker, the original bill was “overhauled” because the “vast majority” of the student senators did not agree with it.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=90440