Rep. Brian Harrison, a Republican, is threatening to cut off funds from the state’s public university system if public colleges and universities continue to offer homosexual-related student courses.
Harrison calls those courses “leftist indoctrination" paid for by the taxpayer. That could be an accurate description for many – if not most – higher ed courses students sit through, but the state rep singles out LGBT-related courses because they are subsidized by taxpaying Christians whose beliefs directly contradict the topic.
“I am sick of my constituents’ tax dollars being weaponized against them, their values, and their children,” Harrison, interviewed by The Christian Post, stated in an email.
The public college and university system in Texas is known as the University of Texas System.
According to the Post story, Harrison and like-minded lawmakers are citing a popular state program called Promise Plus, which helps some students attend college tuition-free if they qualify financially. If that program expands as planned, the lawmakers argue, that means even more tax dollars are going to the University of Texas System.
Jonathan Covey, policy director for Texas Values, tells AFN he agrees with Harrison’s stance.
When many people are struggling to afford gas and groceries, he says, it really is “outrageous” that public universities are using taxpayers’ money for classes that are nothing more than leftist indoctrination.
When the Texas legislature gathers in January for its session, Covey predicts the political pendulum will swing back to the right after going far to the left.
“I think Rep. Harrison and others are bringing a correction and that's way overdue,” Covey says.
