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City of Houston demands pastors turn over sermons [Dealing With Homosexuality]
Fox ^ | Published October 14, 2014 | By Todd Starnes

Posted on 10/15/2014 8:14:40 AM PDT by GonzoII

The city of Houston has issued subpoenas demanding a group of pastors turn over any sermons dealing with homosexuality, gender identity or Annise Parker, the city’s first openly lesbian mayor. And those ministers who fail to comply could be held in contempt of court.

“The city’s subpoena of sermons and other pastoral communications is both needless and unprecedented,” Alliance Defending Freedom attorney Christina Holcomb said in a statement. “The city council and its attorneys are engaging in an inquisition designed to stifle any critique of its actions.”

ADF, a nationally-known law firm specializing in religious liberty cases, is representing five Houston pastors. They filed a motion in Harris County court to stop the subpoenas arguing they are “overbroad, unduly burdensome, harassing, and vexatious.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; adf; anniseparker; catholic; charismatic; christianity; evangelical; homosexualagenda; houston; irs501c3; lutheran; moralabsolutes; orthodox; parker; protestant; texas
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To: vpintheak

You’d be surprised how many in Houston favor this kind of action. Wendy Davis may yet win Harris County.


61 posted on 10/15/2014 8:48:58 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: vpintheak

Those who call upon the name of The Lord, shall be saved.


62 posted on 10/15/2014 8:50:17 AM PDT by mothball
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To: Scooter100

Funny but perhaps true


63 posted on 10/15/2014 8:50:54 AM PDT by Friendofgeorge (Justice for officer Darren------------ PALIN 2016 OR BUST)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Her purpose was to intimidate, she’ll still be in power when the courts reject it. In a way, it will survive the courts.


64 posted on 10/15/2014 8:52:32 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: KoRn
Anything short of laughing in her face would set a bad precedence.
65 posted on 10/15/2014 8:54:21 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

And what if they get a sermon that they don’t “approve” of? Then what? Will they arrest the preacher? Shut down the church? Make a list of the congregants and target them for harassment? Sure, they’ll “suggest” changes first, but if their suggestions are rejected, then what?


66 posted on 10/15/2014 8:57:27 AM PDT by lafroste (matthewharbert.wix.com/matthew-harbert)
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To: F15Eagle
"Pray Psalm 109:8."

Bump.

Imagine these times without God's word.

68 posted on 10/15/2014 9:03:22 AM PDT by GonzoII ("If the new crime be, to believe in God, let us all be criminals" -Sheen)
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To: mothball

Amen! I don’t look forward to the suffering however. Not just for me, but my wife & kids especially.


69 posted on 10/15/2014 9:03:47 AM PDT by vpintheak (Keep calm and Rain Steel!)
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To: GonzoII
word = Word
70 posted on 10/15/2014 9:04:10 AM PDT by GonzoII ("If the new crime be, to believe in God, let us all be criminals" -Sheen)
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To: Dr. Thorne

Man...that could be a picture from 1950’s era USSR!


71 posted on 10/15/2014 9:06:45 AM PDT by woweeitsme
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To: vpintheak

Or you all can get off your asses and get in the faces of the people that are pushing this.

God doesnt hand out good outcomes like they are Happy Meals.


72 posted on 10/15/2014 9:12:34 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: GonzoII
What about the so called separation of church and state. tell this butch mayor to take a long walk off a short dyke.
74 posted on 10/15/2014 9:13:18 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (Some people say that experts agree!!)
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To: GonzoII

The devil will usually over play his hand.......like this. This might result in serious blow back.

Already support for gay marriage is on the downswing - (novelty has worn off).


75 posted on 10/15/2014 9:13:57 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: GonzoII

I agree. A lot of denominations and churches have already bowed to this abomination and profaned their alters and sanctuaries with the weddings and “tolerance” for this behavior. A pastor who presides over one of these ceremonies is a partaker. If a murderer came to a pastor and said, “I intend to continue to shed innocent blood for the rest of my life, but I want you to sanctify my murders and testify before The Creator and mankind that my actions are righteous and just.” it would be no different than a pastor performing a gay marriage. Both are condoning actions that are against the teaching of The Most High. They condone and bless instead of preaching repentance and forgiveness.

May He grant us strength to endure to the end as Paul did when he was imprisoned and persecuted. If your church hasn’t yet accepted this vileness, get ready to stand beside your pastor and be counted. The time is upon us.

There is a reason that Satan saved his worst and most malicious for last. It will be hard for anyone to resist caving to the beast when he can take away everything you have with his political machine.


76 posted on 10/15/2014 9:19:04 AM PDT by Aleya2Fairlie
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To: GonzoII

Knowingly or not, homosexuals are instruments of darkness.


77 posted on 10/15/2014 9:22:20 AM PDT by kimoajax (Rack'em & Stack'em)
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To: GonzoII
Same Sex Marriage: Stealing Rights From God
Is same-sex marriage really a “right”? If so, by what standard is it a right? Who said and by what authority?

Natural Marriage is Not Bigotry—It’s Biology
What reasons, other than religious reasons, might someone want to keep marriage defined as only the union of one man and one woman?

Same Sex Marriage: Stealing Heresy From God
Anyone who opposes same-sex marriage is wrong, says the “gay mafia”—the term the liberal TV personality Bill Maher gave to homosexual activists who “whack” dissenters.

78 posted on 10/15/2014 9:22:20 AM PDT by Heartlander (Prediction: Increasingly, logic will be seen as a covert form of theism. - Denyse OÂ’Leary)
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To: GonzoII

Laughably unconstitutional, I hope the pastors sue and never tuen anything over


79 posted on 10/15/2014 9:24:13 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: GonzoII

Here is an article concerning atheist China.

http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/chinas-secret-churches/
“China, an officially atheist country, places a number of restrictions on Christians and allows legal practice of the faith only at state-approved churches.”

I cannot believe this is happening in USA let alone in a Conservative state such as Texas.


80 posted on 10/15/2014 9:26:30 AM PDT by make no mistake
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