‘Honey, That’s Creepy!’: Ads Call Out Houston Anti-LGBT Bigots As Disgusting Liars

HERO Supporters Finally Go On The Attack

Where were these ads two months ago? 

Two powerful new videos posted online blast opponents of Houston’s Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO) as hypocritical, creepy, disgusting liars.

Voters overwhelmingly repealed HERO on Nov. 3 after opponents ran a series of false, fear-mongering ads suggesting the ordinance would allow men to enter women’s restrooms and prey on victims.

The new pro-HERO spots respond by targeting former GOP leader and attorney Jared Woodfill, spokesman for the anti-HERO campaign, noting that he’s currently defending a man who’s being sued for secretly photographing women in a bathroom. The ads also go after the Rev. Kendall Baker, who narrated anti-HERO radio ads, pointing out that he was fired by the city for sexual harassment.

Then there’s legendary anti-gay bigot Dr. Steve Hotze (photo), the doctor who was a major funder of the anti-HERO campaign, and Pastor Ed Young of Second Baptist Church, who called the ordinance “godless” but once hired a youth pastor accused of soliciting sex from a teenage girl.  

“The so-called Campaign for Houston is built on lies and run by liars,” one of the ads, titled “The Hate Slate,” begins. “You probably remember they were all over the radio lying about Houston’s Equal Rights Ordinance. You probably remember their TV commercial lying about men in women’s bathrooms.” 

The narrator goes on to point out that the Campaign for Houston has endorsed several anti-LGBT candidates in the Dec. 12 runoff in hopes of preventing the new mayor and council from resurrecting HERO. 

“Now they want you to vote for their slate of candidates, candidates being bankrolled by an unhinged Hotze, pushed by a campaign run by people who defend sexual predators,” the narrator states. “That is disgusting. That is hypocritical. Honey, that’s creepy! The Campaign for Houston protects sexual predators and spreads lies, so what does that say about the candidates they want you to vote for?” 

In the other ad, titled “The Campaign For Houston Cannot Be Trusted,” the narrator states: 

“When Jared [Woodfill] says no men in women’s bathrooms, what he means is, unless they hire him as their lawyer. Kendall [Baker] knows a lot about predatory behavior since he was fired from the city of Houston for sexually harassing two female co-workers.” 

“They also have Pastor Ed Young, who is no stranger to sexual predators since his church hired one as a youth pastor, who went to assault several young girls, while the church looked the other way,” the narrator continues. “If the Campaign for Houston is so concerned with sexual predators, why are they working so hard to protect them? They are liars, they are hypocrites and they cannot be trusted.”

The Houston Chronicle reports that the group behind the ads, Houston Truth, appears to be an offshoot of Houston Unites, the pro-HERO campaign that spent $3 million but failed to effectively counter the transgender bathroom myth. 

Houston Unites has been criticized for, among other things, not being aggressive enough in calling out HERO opponents’ deceptive, hateful strategy.

Although some will say the new ads are too little, too late, if they help get pro-LGBT candidates elected and the City Council passes a new HERO, they may turn out to be better late than never. 

 

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