Wife Of Texas Anti-Gay Leader Divorced Him For A Woman

Surrounded by area scouts, Jonathan Saenz, president of Texas Values, reads the press release to that crowd announcing that the Boy Scouts of America will be postponing its decision to admit gays at the “Save Our S... Surrounded by area scouts, Jonathan Saenz, president of Texas Values, reads the press release to that crowd announcing that the Boy Scouts of America will be postponing its decision to admit gays at the “Save Our Scouts” Prayer Vigil and Rally in front of the Boy Scouts of America National Headquarters in Irving, Texas, Wednesday, February 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Richard Rodriguez) MORE LESS
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The wife of an anti-gay activist divorced him to be with a woman just before he started as president of a Texas anti-gay group, according to court documents reviewed by Lone Star Q.

Jonathan Saenz worked as a conservative consultant in Texas for Liberty Legal Institute, where he focused on abortion and religious freedom issues.

His wife, Corrine Morris Rodriguez Saenz, was dating a women when she filed for divorce from her husband in August 2011, according to court documents.

And just a few months later in early 2012, Jonathan Saenz started as president of Texas Values, a spin-off organization of the Texas for Liberty Legal Institute.

At Texas Values, he has tried to block LGBT nondiscrimination ordinances in San Antonio and Houston, and he was successful in pushing the Texas GOP to endorse gay conversion therapy in its party platform.

Read the full account of Saenz’s divorce at Lone Star Q.

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  1. Odd, usually it’s the anti-gay crusader who turns out to be the gay one.

  2. He still couldn’t ‘turn’ her…what a pussy… / snark

  3. “was dating a women”

    So is this New English or something?

  4. SNAP! That definitely left a mark!

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