As the first openly lesbian mayor of Houston, Annise Parker was clearly stung in 2015 when voters rejected an equal rights ordinance known as HERO (Houston Equal Rights Ordinance), which protected LGBT people from discrimination in city services after opponents claimed the measure would effectively open women’s bathrooms to men.
But at least Parker doesn’t have to pay the legal fees of a group of pastors who sued her in state court to get the ordinance repealed, according to a recent ruling won on her behalf at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit by Kate Alsina, a senior Houston assistant city attorney.
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