See this map.
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 ...
Absolutely correct. Texas doesn't get a pass to blame it on liberal big cities, it's true in just about any state you can name.
Are you from TX?
R.L. Dabney, former chaplain to Stonewall Jackson and Southern Presbyterian leader, made a similar observation back in 1897. “It may be inferred again that the present movement for women’s rights will certainly prevail from the history of its only opponent: Northern conservatism. This is a party which never conserves anything. Its history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation. What was the resisted novelty of yesterday is today one of the accepted principles of conservatism; it is now conservative only in affecting to resist the next innovation, which will tomorrow be forced upon its timidity and will be succeeded by some third revolution; to be denounced and then adopted in its turn. American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward towards perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards it, and always advances near its leader.
Its impotency is not hard, indeed, to explain. It is worthless because it is the conservatism of expediency only, and not of sturdy principle. It intends to risk nothing serious for the sake of the truth, and has no idea of being guilty of the folly of martyrdom. It always when about to enter a protest very blandly informs the wild beast whose path it essays to stop, that its ‘bark is worse than its bite,’ and that it only means to save its manners by enacting its decent role of resistance: The only practical purpose which it now serves in American politics is to give enough exercise to Radicalism to keep it ‘in wind,’ and to prevent its becoming pursy and lazy, from having nothing to whip. No doubt, after a few years, when women’s suffrage shall have become an accomplished fact, conservatism will tacitly admit it into its creed, and thenceforward plume itself upon its wise firmness in opposing with similar weapons the extreme of baby suffrage; and when that too shall have been won, it will be heard declaring that the integrity of the American Constitution requires at least the refusal of suffrage to asses. There it will assume, with great dignity, its final position.”
I live in Not Chicago, Illinois. I know full well what it’s like to live in a state that’s dominated by a big city.
I was wondering if 556x45 had lost a job that was moved to Texas?
LBJ was from a different time. I couldn't stand him and he loved big government but...even LBJ didn't hate America!
He was the typical Dem...stole his first election and dead people voted...in alphabetical order.
Back in LBJ's days, most Texas Democrats were more conservative than today's RINOs...but he wasn't one of the conservatives.
Reagan flipped Texas to the GOP.
I don’t believe mosques are included as I saw no reference to imams in the article, only pastors. One point that stood out was this:
Parker, who has acknowledged the ordinance is “all about me,”
Way to go Bob Unruh. Make sure you protect those “city officials” and don’t name them.
Surely the Houston Chronicle must be siding with the ministers aginst this totaltarian overreach.
See this map.
Wonder no more...the answer is no, I didnt.
No...just Houston and Austin. Nowhere else in Texas would this BS fly (OK, Dallas...maybe).
I believed that at some point conservatives would fight back and win. I no longer believe that.
I am starting to think that too and if they did fight back, the GOPe will side against them
It’s called “jamming.” The homosexuals publicly shame and humiliate anyone who disagrees with them in such a destructive manner that no one else will disagree with them in public again. If anyone comes to the pastors’ defense, they will get the same treatment.
The legal case is largely irrelevant. By the time the LGB*&%&& are done with these pastors, few people will feel comfortable saying they attend their churches.
Its the same thing the libs have done to Sarah Palin.
The only defense is courage.
bump
Johnson loved winning more than he loved America.
“For one thing, Christians “take it.” There is no fear of Christians resisting or fighting back.”
The secular church has fallen away from the truth, and as we see...there is no truth in them. True Followers of Christ not only resist these attacks, but with the authority that God has given those to who ‘believe’, REBUKE them in Jesus’ Name. A True Follower of Christ would not remain in a church who willingly omits the TRUTH, exchanging it for a LIE. That is a demonically-led church, led by a False Witness.
True Believers put up with alot more than most of them are willing to admit. But that is part of “the walk”. Now, putting up with rejecting the truth is not on the agenda of a True Believer. The agenda is to shed light on lie(s), and to reveal the ‘truth’ that’s been disguised by it. Satan is trying to dismantle God’s people...removing any remnants of God, in order to soon claim God’s creation(earth)as his. What better way to do this to God’s Temple than for Satan to send his emissaries into it to destroy it? It’s no coincidence.
Most but not all Kali expats are a negative when they move to conservative areas
Sure is the case here in Williamson county TN
we’re battling them on the school board right now
At least he didn't run for re-election...spared us 4 more years.
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