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Houston Demands Oversight of Sermons!
WND ^ | October 13, 2014 | Bob Unruh

Posted on 10/14/2014 9:33:21 AM PDT by rfreedom4u

Officials with the city of Houston, Texas, who are defending a controversial ordinance that would allow men to use women’s restrooms now have demanded to see the sermons preached by several area pastors.

The recent move came in a subpoena from the city to pastors for copies of their sermons and other communications in the city’s legal defense of a “non-discrimination” measure that allows “gender-confused” people to use public restrooms designated for the opposite sex.

A lawsuit challenging Houston’s move alleges the city violated its own charter in its adoption of the Equal Rights Ordinance, which in May designated homosexuals and transgender persons as a protected class.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/major-u-s-city-demands-oversight-of-sermons/#rPp76lUXbdm2rQFl.99

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; abuseofpower; achillwind; anniseparker; censorship; churchandstate; corporateliberalism; cultureofcorruption; firstamendment; freedomofreligion; gaystapo; homosexualagenda; houston; irs501c3; lesbianmayor; maninaskirt; restrooms; sexpositiveagenda; texas; transgenderlaw
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To: GeronL

Isnt that the theme mostly run up by you chest beaters. How much superior or morals and ideology you are than any other place? Sure it is. In reality TX is not different than any other place in the US.


41 posted on 10/14/2014 10:15:37 AM PDT by 556x45
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To: a fool in paradise

Then what is the point of monitoring sermons?


42 posted on 10/14/2014 10:15:51 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: rfreedom4u

One of those times when just maybe, the churches should tell that mayor and city council to go to hell!


43 posted on 10/14/2014 10:16:04 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: GeronL

And the gay CEO of Metro (who was caught using company computers to go trolling for rent-boys on company time) may be waiting in the wings to be the next mayor (he’s run before).


44 posted on 10/14/2014 10:16:06 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Hey Obama: If Islamic State is not Islamic, then why did you give Osama Bin Laden a muslim funeral?)
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To: GeronL

CRUCIFY HIM!!!!


45 posted on 10/14/2014 10:16:25 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to annoy someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: a fool in paradise

The Liberal Democrats in Houston are actually upset with Mayoress Porker?


46 posted on 10/14/2014 10:17:15 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: 556x45
Isnt that the theme mostly run up by you chest beaters

Now I'm a chest beater?

47 posted on 10/14/2014 10:17:37 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: rfreedom4u

Houston’s mayor is a swish female. You knew this was coming like day follows night.


48 posted on 10/14/2014 10:17:52 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: a fool in paradise

He might even win on a Sodomy for Kids platform


49 posted on 10/14/2014 10:18:21 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: rfreedom4u

Eff the State.


50 posted on 10/14/2014 10:18:39 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: rfreedom4u

Shade of the IRS harassment of “prayers”...


51 posted on 10/14/2014 10:22:15 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Hey Obama: If Islamic State is not Islamic, then why did you give Osama Bin Laden a muslim funeral?)
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To: GeronL

w/ poor reading comprehension


52 posted on 10/14/2014 10:23:09 AM PDT by 556x45
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To: musicman

:^)


53 posted on 10/14/2014 10:25:43 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama and the Left are maggots feeding off the flesh of the United States.)
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To: 556x45
LOL, so TX is just as messed up as the rest of the country.

What kind of sicko would delight that somebody else is as bad off as he is?

Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin...it's never been a secret that the cities are controlled by Liberals.

There is not one single Democrat elected to a state-wide office in Texas.

Our biggest problem is having the Liberals sent to Congress by you losers.

54 posted on 10/14/2014 10:26:29 AM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: Army Air Corps
Evangelical Christians far outnumber the secularists in this country. However, the peasantry well outnumbered the aristocracy in 17th Century France and 19th Century Russia. Numbers were not power, at least before the revolutions. Relatively few Russians, Poles, Czechs, etc., were Communists or sympathetic to Communism during the Cold War era. It mattered little as long as the KGB and its affiliates terrorized the captive nations.

The money and influence in this country and the other Western democracies are mostly in the hands of the other side, like it or not. This recent wave of transgender bathroom access may lose in referenda and even in defeat of liberal incumbents. The same was true of homosexual marriage initiatives a decade ago. But the Left does not give up. Keep in mind they own and control the ivory tower, which is effectively the control tower in this society. They also own the entertainment media, and have done so for many decades. Predictably, public opposition to the homosexual agenda has declined.

Until the current ruling class is overthrown or replaced, the long term prospects for America and Western civilization are dismal. Neo-paganism, nihilism, and barring technological advancements to keep them in power, the ascendancy of China, Russia, and the Muslim world.

55 posted on 10/14/2014 10:26:43 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: Army Air Corps

Sad in a way, but true.

Christians try too hard to be decent citizens at times, not realizing they should push back at important moments.


56 posted on 10/14/2014 10:26:50 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama and the Left are maggots feeding off the flesh of the United States.)
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To: lonestar

1) Not a sicko
2) so you admit TX is the same liberal cesspool as the rest of the country?
3) not happy about that fact (in 2 above)
4) TX has doe its share of electing liberals that the rest of us have to suffer with

Its sort of the whole point...TX is the same miserable mess as the rest of the country. THe sooner you chest beaters come to peace w/ that the better off youll be.


57 posted on 10/14/2014 10:31:34 AM PDT by 556x45
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To: 556x45
all you TX chest beaters tell me why I'm wrong. LOL..


Nope, you are not wrong
Stand by for incoming.

Any large city controlled by democrats is a socialist cess pool.

58 posted on 10/14/2014 10:34:39 AM PDT by itsahoot (Voting for a Progressive RINO is the same as voting for any other Tyrant.)
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To: 556x45

I can see why you guys prefer Obama, you despise the only state standing between you and a permanent succession of Obamas.


59 posted on 10/14/2014 10:36:15 AM PDT by ansel12 ( LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nationÂ’s electorate for democrats)
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To: 556x45
It's not any different than any other place. The point is right on target.
When I moved back to TX from VA many laws have changed, one is the CCW laws
that set me back enough to gasp about what's happening. Texas is touted
by many here as being the Gun state but it's not. Acquiring the CCW is more
like weaving your way though the court system and in many ways was made
that way to dissuade people from getting their permit.

I applied and thought every "T" was crossed but they sent me two letters
informing me that more hoops must be jumped through. And business, oh man,
the bureaucracy is sickening in the Major cities governed by elitist
Men and Women who protect their favorite contractors.

Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin, El Paso are all Blue now. But hey,
even Northern CA is red and look how much influence they have on CA politics.
Yea right. I'm not in denial, I'm in shock.

Texas is going Left and into the shitter. Yes, even more left.

60 posted on 10/14/2014 10:36:44 AM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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