Posted on 10/15/2014 7:19:07 PM PDT by bestintxas
Houston Mayor Annise Parker has backed down from the subpoenas the City of Houston issued to several area pastors, Breitbart Texas has learned.
Breitbart Texas reported earlier about the controversy, stemming from litigation challenging the city's anti-discrimination ordinance and subpoenas asking the pastors for the content of their sermons, speeches and communications with church members. Texas Senator Ted Cruz weighed in, firmly supporting the pastors in their efforts to fight the subpoenas, while Mayor Parker initially remained adamant that the city had the right to request those records. Despite posting comments on Twitter just hours before that seemed to indicate she would continue to fight this issue, she told a Houston radio station that she had changed her mind.
As reported by KTRH Mayor Parker admitted that the subpoenas were too broad, and that the pastors' sermons should not have been included. "It’s not about what did you preach on last Sunday," she said. "It should have been clarified, it will be clarified." City Attorney David Feldman had an odd admission of his own: that he had not reviewed the subpoenas before they were issued. "When I looked at it I felt it was overly broad, I would not have worded it that way myself," said Feldman. "It's unfortunate that it has been construed as some effort to infringe upon religious liberty."
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“Probe with a bayonet. If you meet steel, stop. If you meet mush, then push.” - V.I. Lenin.
I don’t know the election rules in Texas.
These anti-religious liberty dirtbags belong against a concrete wall. Just sayin’
Sorry, not a good picture.
He looks physically too small.
What’s in the Texas State Constitution about free exercise? I’m sure it’s there. If it comes up again, fight it at that level.
Texans must NOT involve the federal government. The Constitution FOBIDS the feds from denying free exercise and it does NOT allow the feds to enforce free speech at the state level. Letting the feds unconstitutionally decide how to enforce free exercise at the state level opens the door for the feds to interfere with the will of the people of the state and, as with abortion and marriage which are also none of the feds business, will make matters worse.
The Mayor was testing the limits of her legitimate authority. This could be an important lesson to legislators who might seriously challenge 0bama’s usurpations. I recognize the slim chances of that happening of course.
wait I thought Cruz was polarizing now I learn he has the weight to scare off the homonazis!!!
Yeah, what were we thinking? Dumbass.
I haven't actually read anything quite like this little comedy of idiocy since the wars of religion in the 17th century. You will provide the text of your sermons for Her Majesty's approval? That got people tossed out of windows in Prague, and if this doesn't end in a Defenestration of Houston, it ought to.
The City Attorney “should have read the damned subpoena before signing it”.
Time to find a new mayor and CA.
Let’s call this the Nancy Pelosi approach to law. “You’ve got to pass it before you know what’s in it”.
Houston is just another Democrat cesspool of ideological leftism and sheer stupidity.
Come on Ted Cruz, Gov. Perry, etc. Time to clean out the outhouse.
Well it has to start sometime and some place. This time and this place is good as any.
Classy.
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Not.
The Constitution FOBIDS the feds from denying free exercise and it does NOT allow the feds to enforce free speech at the state level.
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14th Amendment. It allows the Feds to interfere when states overstep the bounds of the U.S. Constitution.
They should still sue the city and mayor
...that’s from the book of Ralph, isn’t it?
That is exactly what it was/is and everyone knows it
Let death steal over Annise Parker; let her go down to Sheol alive; for evil is in her dwelling place and in her heart.
I’m tired of all this “civilized” B.S. 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.
Good times, good times...
That’s a good picture. I would very much like to see Ted at that desk in real life.
What the hell.....?
Well, the holidays are coming up: perhaps we can use them to decorate lampposts.
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