The Falling Away: Has It Happened?
Posted on 10/15/2014 10:35:49 PM PDT by This Just In
AUSTIN, Texas -- 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 has changed her mind.
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That’s right! Now on to the recall. How fast can Houston get her out of office?
Backing off her own statements, her own tweets and her own actions?
I don’t think we should let her escape.
Where are all the liberals who scream daily “The separation of church and state”?
Houston residents demand this mayor leave office now.
Ah yes, you are correct and Free Republic is chuck-a-block-full of good men (and women) who will do nothing and allow evil to reign.
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.
They don’t have a clue what you are saying. That’s where they are.
Communist Goals of 1936. It is exactly why schools INTENTIONALLY refuse to teach history and why there is such a push to teach the Harry Turtledove (AKA ‘alternate history...or in the lib implimentation, ‘outright falsity’) versions they do.
I laughed when I heard it mentioned tonight that the mayor was welcome to all of the sermons - they’re all online and she was encouraged to listen to them.
Perhaps this is why she backed off requesting the sermons. She must have felt pretty stupid after being told that they’re all completely available to her anyway!
Anyone that goes on other sites apart from FR will know there are a good proportion of people out there who absolutely hate Christianity and would be happy for this to pass muster. I see British Actors/Comedians and even those here in Australia lampooning Christians in the most vicious manner and audiences seem to love it. Lefties are empowered by this stuff and they sometimes over reach a little early but believe me the world is heading this way rapidly. When they know they are clearly in the majority they will enforce these things and they will bend and twist the constitution to do it.
We are heading towards a time of persecution - how long it takes to reach physical action on behalf of the state I don’t know but before that, even now, they are already using the law to oppress Christian Liberty. Unions and leftie orgs. like Code Pink will only be happy when the government starts handing them their brown shirts!
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
We’re only a few steps away from arresting clergymen and making them disappear in the gulag.
The Falling Away: Has It Happened?
Epic!
thanks
Maybe I should rewrite it, flesh it out and post it as a vanity when people are actually awake.
Not a bad idea. Check your typing, maybe work on the paragraphs a bit, but it’s really quite good as it is.
You’re not going to get many readers at the tail end of yesterday’s article. (Happens to me pretty often, too!)
I think I have had a lot of good posts at the end of threads over the years.
I think about things until I have time to spend a few minutes responding ... but by then, everyone else has moved on.
Oh, well.
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