Gov. Rick Perry is getting the credit in Israel for a new Texas law prohibiting property owner association restrictions of religious displays that don’t otherwise violate the law.
But all that Perry did was perform a governor’s option by signing the bill into law in June. Houston state rep Garnet Coleman actually wrote the bill and got his colleagues to pass it—spurred by a Houston couple’s complaint that a condominium association had prevented them from attaching a Mezuzah (jocularly known as the Jewish lightning rod) to their unit’s front doorpost.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 