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Nov 23, 2009 5:12 pm US/Central
UNT Students Vote Down Same-Sex Homecoming Bill
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Monday afternoon students on the University of North Texas (UNT) campus voted not to allow same-sex couples to run for homecoming.
Nearly 5,000 students voted. The final tally – 58-precent of students voted against the referendum, while 42-percent voted for it.
The decision was placed into the hands of the student body, after an outcry of protest from some gay students on campus, following an October student government voted against the issue.
The bill, introduced by a student body senator, would have allowed the king and queen of the homecoming court to be the same gender. They could have been best friends, perfect strangers, homosexual, or heterosexual.
The student government later reversed itself and turned the decision over to the campus. Since November 16 the UNT campus has been voting online on the same sex issue.
The vote results were posted on the UNT student government website at 5pm.
Before the results were released, UNT Student Body President Dakota Carter said he wasn't taking sides. "I'm neutral. I'm student body president," he explained. "My job is to be here for all students regardless of their opinion. I represent them all. And I will enforce whatever the vote dictates me to enforce."
Carter said he was elected with 5-percent of the vote and that this measure represented a larger number. For that he says he's grateful because it got the students involved in the campus political process.
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