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Posted on 10/15/2014 10:57:29 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
As reported by Breitbart Texas, the dispute stems from an anti-discrimination ordinance passed by Houston regarding discrimination based on gender and sexual orientation. The pastors' churches were part of a coalition of hundreds of churches in the Houston area that opposed the ordinance. After a referendum petition seeking to get a repeal measure on the November ballot was tossed out over allegations that the petition signature gatherers were not qualified under Texas law, a lawsuit was filed, but the pastors were not a part of the litigation. The pastors have obtained legal representation and filed a motion to quash the subpoenas, arguing that they were an illegal demand of their "their constitutionally protected sermons and other communications."
Cruz agreed with the pastors and their attorneys, releasing a statement Wednesday that echoed the religious liberty and free speech arguments they made. "I'm proud to stand with the pastors," said Cruz. "Religious liberty is the very first protection in the Bill of Rights, the foundation of all our liberties. The City of Houston’s subpoenas demanding that pastors provide the government with copies of their sermons is both shocking and shameful. For far too long, the federal government has led an assault against religious liberty, and now, sadly, my hometown of Houston is joining the fight. This is wrong. It's unbefitting of Texans, and it's un-American."
The senator also criticized the subpoenas as a "grotesque abuse of power" by the city government. "The government has no business asking pastors to turn over their sermons. These subpoenas are a grotesque abuse of power,
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That’s funny, I did not see any release from Rand Paul. I am a believer, Cruz is the last hope this nation has. He will be a MUCH better President than Ronald Reagan. I will honestly be happier if Cruz loses to Hillary than if RP wins against her. Cruz is a true friend of Christians.
Unless I’m misinformed, Adolf Hitler never demanded the texts of sermons given in Nazi Germany; this is more after the fashion of Lenin and Stalin and the old NKVD.
Houston, it would seem, is intent on out-doing the USSR in its prohibitions on the expression of religion, and is headed straight for Mao tse Dong territory and the Great People’s Cultural Revolution of communist China. Perhaps Houston intends to hand out Little Red Books and encourage its youth to tear down all remnants of The Old Ways.
If there has ever been a more direct and in-your-face violation of the First Amendment, I’ve never heard of it.
Maybe so, but I don't think he is acting as such, so much as a true defender of the Constitution, which I hope is the case.
The left is nothing if not audacious and malicious.
I’m curious to know why you think he would be a MUCH better president than Reagan, if you don’t mind sharing.
Impeach!
These actions are expressly FORBIDDEN by the 1st amendment!
Be funny is backfires on Annise Parker and results in her removal. They don’t need mentally I’ll people in office anyway. Just who in the hell does she think she is to do something like that and what did she plan on doing with it anyway. That is the bigger question here.
Just more incrementalism. The seed is now planted so expect other lib pols to pull this elsewhere. It’s the global warming/gay model.
This is either stopped dead and hard or it will keep happening/backing down until a judge steps in and gives them what they want.
I think Cruz is more solid on the issues than RR. Reagan while overall a good President did two huge disservices to the nation. Firstly, he passed amnesty for illegals which is the inspiration for recent pushes for same. Secondarily he put a flaming liberal on the court which resulted in incredible damage to the Republic (Kennedy is more or less solely responsible for homosexual marriage in this nation, also he is the vote that keep abortion legal).
It hasn’t backfired on her yet. This is not over.
With the left it is never over. They never give up.
Only “our side” walks away and says “Well, that’s that, let’s get a snack”
Meanwhile the left slithers back and keeps fighting while we are off trying to have a normal life again.
This is what they do.
They are just like the Borg in this regard. Remember what Picard said in that film?
“I will not sacrifice the Enterprise. We’ve made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! And *I* will make them pay for what they’ve done! “
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Will we sacrifice America? We’ve made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the cities, and we fall back. They assimilate whole states and we fall back.
Will we keep compromising? retreating? Or will we draw that line and say NO FURTHER, will we ever make them pay for what they’ve done?
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Because the people we call RINO’s won’t draw the line, they will continue to compromise, they will continue to retreat on issue after issue.
Boehner: Obamacare is the law of the land and it will be funded.
Scott Walker: Gay marriage is here to stay.
Jeb Bush: As President I would govern like LBJ
McConnell wants to punch us in the face, defund our candidates, undermine our candidates even if they win primaries. They’d rather see the BORG win elections than us who refuse to give the enemy what they want, eventually - just more gradually than the enemy wants it. They have no real quarrel with the Borg over the direction.
Annise Parker might be “backing down” temporarily, but she isn’t. She is just changing her strategy not her goal, we should not breathe a sigh of relief and go on our merry way thinking the coast is clear and everything is roses now.
Maybe she isn’t a BORG. Maybe she is one of those Weeping Angels from “Dr. Who’. Oh sure they stop moving when we shine the line on them, but as soon as we stop paying attention they are sucking our brains out.
Remember that this is not about Annise Parker, or the whole stinking city council of Houston. The people of Houston elected those NAZI’s, because they support them and they support their promises and goals. Or they don’t really care.
Look at what the people of Germany allowed in the 30’s. Look at what the whole cruel world allow to happen in the middle east for decades. Ask the children of Rotherham what happens when good men do nothing.
“Shocking and Shameful” it might be, but this is just one little footnote in the vast horrible tome of the -Isms. It is hardly any more “shocking and shameful” than what has been taking place in this country and the whole freaking world for decades upon decades.
Millions of dead babies, molested children, mentally and physically. How many failed products of the government “schools” are there now? Half the people in this country seem to have no idea there are such thing as right and wrong.
So-called “churches” and “moderates” want to negotiate and compromise with the great evil of the -Isms. Then they have to compromise down again and again until their is nothing left to surrender. A downward trend into hell.
In the 80’s when I grew up I thought there was a political party who was “on my side”. Yes, I was a kid who saw the battle. I saw it in much more muted and simpler terms back then but I saw it. I saw a Champion of my side in Ronald Reagan.
But I haven’t seen it since. I hoped and tried to see it in others but they never had it. There were some smart ones, there were some who were great on this or that issue and even some who seemed to see it the same way I did but they were the ones who had no power and never would have. They never rose. Why?
Because the political party I thought aligned with me and my ideals was not. There aren’t any. They are as bought and sold as the Democrats, and they are even less idealistic. Some of them are Democrats with an R by their name, and others are the compromisers and surrenderers.
“Our side” hasn’t hardly begun to really identify the enemy, not really started to organize, and we are a long way from a real fight. But more and more, sure still too few -far too few- are recognizing that the Republican Party isn’t going to save us, and often it’s not really even on our side at all.
We have just began to wake up. Just starting to stir. I do not know what shape and form this will take but I don’t care as long as it is ready to do real battle.
The enemy has been gnawing away at everything that holds civilization together. The family, marriage, childhood, modesty, innocence, right and wrong, faith and even the concept of the self; our conscious.
They have faced very little resistance. They are like oil seeping through, every little crack they drip drip drip drip into us and into our society. Look at how long they fought to make abortion legal and common and now celebrated.
They started on the edges, in the shadows, oh look at those poor women, so abused... oh look at those poor homosexuals, so pushed into the closet...
And over time we compromised and negotiated, oh we don’t want abortion in unregulated dirty back alleys, let us make it legal, safe and rare... oh it’s just another choice, who are you to have an opinion on a private matter.... yes we do want it to be unregulated even if it is in a dirty back alley! The important thing was always dead babies.
But that was just one symptom. It all comes together at the end. Even if we had 2 pretend opposition groups they naturally saw what side was really what.
Productive people taxed into poverty, while those who don’t work are made better off by those taxes. Criminals celebrated while those who shoot the killers are vilified. Generations-old conflicts, race and every possible thing used to divide and conquer become causes. A once-free economy chained by regulations and government bailouts and debt.
On every single issue, we negotiated in good faith and fell back, we compromised and fell back, but they took more and more and more and we fell back.
And every time we had a tiny puny and very temporary “victory” we would celebrate and say “darn shame they tried that” and then we go home and try to live normal lives. While they, the evil, the -Isms, the enemies of civilization slithered back after we went home and retook their bases of power and started their evil work once again.
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Let us finally draw the line.
Let the battle be joined.
Even if we feel alone against the whole world let us stand tall and fight.
I’d love to tell Houston’s horrid dyke mayor to her face to take those subpoenas and shove them right up her c***.
Hitler simply shut churches down, took properties from them for his own purposes, kicked nuns out of hospitals and replaced them with NAZI sisters. Hitler wanted to replace the “gutter” religion of Christianity with his own form of pagan worship.
From now on I address City of Houston employees as Tovarisch.
Gay privacy respect? Pfft what privacy. Let us steal identities and misportray. Makes raping licit.
LOL, mom, relax. I agree with you however, and I like the passion. That wench is a real POS.
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