Ah, the irony, tis sweet!
Mere months before Jonathan Saenz became president of the anti-gay group Texas Values, his wife left him for another woman, according to Hays County district court records obtained by Lone Star Q.
The revelation could help explain Saenz’s seemingly abrupt transformation from socially conservative lobbyist to homophobic firebrand.
Saenz, a devout Catholic, has been a right-wing operative in Texas for many years — working on abortion and religious liberty cases as a staff attorney for the Plano-based Liberty Legal Institute as far back as 2005.
However, it wasn’t until recently that Saenz emerged as one of the state’s best-known — and most extreme — anti-LGBT voices.
Court records indicate that Saenz’s ex-wife, Corrine Morris Rodriguez Saenz, is a member of the LGBT community who was dating another woman when she filed for divorce from Saenz in August 2011.
This bit is interesting, considering how
the Texas GOP has embraced reparative therapy as part of their platform as recently as June of this year:
During their divorce, Jonathan Saenz unsuccessfully sought to permanently bar Corrine Saenz’s girlfriend from being in the presence of the children, records show. At one point, he also sought to jail his ex-wife for failing to undergo an evaluation by a psychologist of his choosing—even though he refused to pay the psychologist’s $2,500 fee.
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The order also directed both Jonathan and Corrine Saenz to undergo evaluations by Austin psychologist Stephen Thorne, who had been chosen by Jonathan Saenz.
It’s unclear why Saenz picked Thorne, but according to reports, Thorne also does contract work for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, evaluating sex offenders for behavioral abnormalities.
EXCLUSIVE: Texas anti-gay leader Jonathan Saenz's ex-wife left him for another woman | Lone Star Q — Texas Statewide LGBT News Source
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