Cruz to the Rescue: Houston Mayor Backs Off From Subpoenas to Pastors

breitbart ^ | 10/15/14 | s rumpf

[Celtic Conservative]

Yes, the little known epistle of St Ralph the indignant to the Dock workers of Ephesus. =^)

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[Islander2]

The Lesbo mayor now says the information demanded by her (a broad) was just too broad. Who writes this stuff?

[BeadCounter]

I heard one of the Pastor’s interviewed on the radio. Hannity said he’d foot any bill of any pastor prosecuted. I don’t know if this would have mainly affected black pastors or whom. Cheers to the Pastors who stood up. They are the ones that should have been in the headline.

[C. Edmund Wright]

no doubt the dock workers were union goons too!

[C. Edmund Wright]

If she’s a lesbo, does that mean she’s not interested in epistles?

[Jane Long]

Okay. Don’t blame Texas for this lezbo mayor. It’s a BIG state....we’ve a lot more good, than bad.

And, we have Sen Ted Cruz ;-)

[william clark]

Two questions:

1. How can she back off of something she claimed to have not been involved with or known about?

2. How can these subpoenas be part of a discovery process, when the pastors targeted by them aren’t parties to the lawsuit in question?

[MrB]

Well, she’s definitely not interested in people who play piano.

[Arrowhead1952]

Your office has demanded that four Houston pastors hand over to the city government many of their private papers, including their sermons. Whether you intend it to be so or not, your action is a direct assault on the religious liberty guaranteed by the First Amendment.....

How about this?

Your office has demanded all black Houston pastors hand over to the city government many of their private papers, including their sermons in support of barry Hussein 0 bummer.

You think the mayor would have done that? She would have crapped a cinder block.

[Vendome]

Texas is an awesome state!

[RikaStrom]

She may have said it, but the subpoenas were still in place, and have not been pulled, as of yet.

[Albion Wilde]

"It's unfortunate that it has been construed as some effort to infringe upon religious liberty."

Yeah," I'm not sorry I did it. I'm sorry you yahoos won't go along with it. **** you."

[Albion Wilde]

If the election were held today, he'd get my vote.

[Albion Wilde]

Every pastor should make a point of crafting a sermon against the anti-Christian zealot.

Then all of them should flood the Mayor's office and the City Attorney's office with copies. Thousands of sermons.

[Albion Wilde]

Sorry, not a good picture. He looks physically too small.

Out of respect for the office he has the humility not to pose ostentatiously when it is not yet his place. It appears to be a quick, unposed moment -- it's a very low-resolution photo that was probably taken on a cell phone by an associate while waiting for a meeting to begin.

[Albion Wilde]

The City Attorney “should have read the damned subpoena before signing it”.

Hey, that excuse worked for Obamacare...

[Albion Wilde]

Back in the day, constituents thought it was their civic duty to literally haul out a ne’er-do-well politician, tar and feather him, and run him out on a rail.

[Albion Wilde]

Did they subpoena the sermons of the Imams of the Houston Mosques? I have not heard of any complaints from the Muslims.

Yeah, well, City Attorney Feldman can't read Arabic. In fact, the mosques are his allies in persecuting Christians.

[IronJack]

By the way, do you notice how the “sermons” preached by sham reverends like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Jeremiah Wright don’t seem to be classified as political, even though they are overtly so? Are any of their “churches” being targeted for exclusion from tax exemption?

This is not only a violation of the religion and free speech clauses of the First Amendment, it’s an offense under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth. This mayor should be sued for an attempted violation of civil liberties.

[Jane Long]

Just saw this.... Amanda Carpenter ‏@amandacarpenter 7m7 minutes ago FYI-Cruz rally with pastors is starting in Houston at 12:15ET/11:15CT. Houston has no business asking pastors to turn over their sermons