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. "Its 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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Yes, the little known epistle of St Ralph the indignant to the Dock workers of Ephesus. =^)
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The Lesbo mayor now says the information demanded by her (a broad) was just too broad. Who writes this stuff?
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.
no doubt the dock workers were union goons too!
If she’s a lesbo, does that mean she’s not interested in epistles?
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 ;-)
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?
Well, she’s definitely not interested in people who play piano.
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.
Texas is an awesome state!
She may have said it, but the subpoenas were still in place, and have not been pulled, as of yet.
Yeah," I'm not sorry I did it. I'm sorry you yahoos won't go along with it. **** you."
If the election were held today, he'd get my vote.
Then all of them should flood the Mayor's office and the City Attorney's office with copies. Thousands of sermons.
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.
Hey, that excuse worked for Obamacare...
Yeah, well, City Attorney Feldman can't read Arabic. In fact, the mosques are his allies in persecuting Christians.
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.
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