Houston to pastors: Forget your sermons, now we want your speeches

Fox News ^ | October 17, 2014 | Todd Starnes

[Olog-hai]

Five Christian pastors will no longer have to turn their sermons over to attorneys for the city of Houston. Instead, they will be forced to turn over their speeches related to the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO).

I don’t mean to point out the obvious here—but what do those attorneys think a sermon is? It’s a speech.

According to an amended motion filed Friday in Harris County, Texas court, the city’s attorneys will no longer demand sermons related to homosexuals, gender identity, or Mayor Annise Parker—Houston’s first openly lesbian mayor.

The amended subpoenas do require the pastors to turn over “all speeches or presentations related to HERO”—along with 17 different categories of information. …

[elcid1970]

So...when does Assinine Porker send in her jackbooted thugs?

[Kartographer]

In my opinion one of the top Ten Westerns of all time: Open Range

[LtKerst]

attorneys for the city of Houston....

These Rats should be arrested and thrown in Jail.

[2ndDivisionVet]

[logos]

If anyone wants to hear my sermons all they have to do is come and sit in the sanctuary on Sunday mornings. Idiots.

[Gilbo_3]

Some here will disagree with me, but I think that this action by the mayor and her henchmen is close to that point where more than peaceful resistance is justified.

waaaay beyond that point...toss out the shades of gray and boil it down to black & white, EVERY edict that spews forth from gubmint at any level is done with the understanding that *resistance* will mean facing the muzzle of a gubmint assault rifle...

*they* started it a looooong time ago...

[NFHale]

“...These Leftists just don’t get it....”

Oh, they get it all right... they just don’t give a sh*t.

They think it’s “their” time right now, so they’re bold.

People haven’t pushed back - hard - yet.

[buffyt]

Red SLOUCHING TOWARD GOMORRAH by Robert Bork
he was RIGHT.

[sport]

I would still tell them no and would resist to my death. And that would be my advice to the Pastors. If they decided to enforce the subpoena with the power of the law, then they would be bloodshed.

[sport]

My thoughts exactly.

[sport]

that picture brings tears of joy to my eyes every time I see it. Those people were ready to die if necessary. %he cowards, bullies, and thugs masquerading as law enforcement were ready to kill them. Then the cowards, bullies, and thugs looked around them and saw they would not be slaughtering unarmed people, as they initially believed. They would also be killed. Faced with that fact, they could not flee fast enough. Those men are true Patriots.

[Kartographer]

"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say goodbye to his family?"

The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[DoughtyOne]

I should. You’re right.