Houston to pastors: Forget your sermons, now we want your speeches

The batshit crazy leftists in Houston are out of control. That liberal c#nt of a mayor needs to be taken down. Unreal....

Quote:Five Christian pastors will no longer have to turn their sermons over to attorneys for the city of Houston. Instead, they will be forced to turn over their speeches related to the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO).

I don’t mean to point out the obvious here – but what do those attorneys think a sermon is? It’s a speech.

According to an amended motion filed Friday in Harris County, Texas court, the city’s attorneys will no longer demand sermons related to homosexuals, gender identity, or Mayor Annise Parker – Houston's first openly lesbian mayor.

The amended subpoenas do require the pastors to turn over “all speeches or presentations related to HERO” – along with 17 different categories of information.

I don’t mean to point out the obvious here – but what do those attorneys think a sermon is? It’s a speech.

The Alliance Defending Freedom is a religious liberty law firm that is representing the pastors. Attorney Erik Stanley tells me the amended subpoenas don’t solve anything.

“The city of Houston still doesn’t get it,” he said. “The subpoenas still ask for information that encompasses speeches made by the pastors and private communications with their church members.”

Stanley said the only resolution is for the city to rescind the subpoenas entirely.

“This tramples their First Amendment rights to free speech and the free exercise of religion,” Stanley said. “Any inquiry into what these pastors did in standing against the ordinance passed by the city of Houston and encouraging members to sign the petition is a violation of the First Amendment.”

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/10/1...-speeches/

Under what Constitutional regulatory power does the city believe they can subpoena this? While she's at it, she should subpoena the GOP, the Catholic Church, the local FCA groups, and maybe even parochial schools. I see no difference between her and the SS.

Another liberal trying to silence anybody who doesn't share her views.

Seriously, shouldn't a mayor know a little something about free speech and the the law? Who the hell elected her?

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And the ACLU is where?

The actions of the Houston Mayor definitely fall under the GAYSTAPO title.

(10-17-2014 07:45 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  And the ACLU is where?

I don't think the American-Liberal-Progressive Civil Liberties Union takes on these kind of cases.

Omg. Horrible.

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(10-18-2014 12:22 AM)pharaoh0 Wrote:  

(10-17-2014 07:45 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  And the ACLU is where?

I don't think the American-Liberal-Progressive Civil Liberties Union takes on these kind of cases.

What kind of cases would that be, where the left is dead wrong?

I don't know about Houston but in many locals I've been to or have seen the ACLU is headed by a Gay or Lesbian spokesperson. That alone could influence a decision by the ACLU. "Not that there is anything wrong with that".