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Houston to pastors: Forget your sermons, now we want your speeches
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| October 17, 2014
| Todd Starnes
Posted on 10/17/2014 11:33:52 AM PDT by 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. …
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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; anniseparker; antichristian; equalrightsordinance; firstamendment; freedomofspeech; freeexerciseclause; gaystapo; hero; homosexualagenda; houston; irs501c3; texas
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posted on
10/17/2014 11:33:52 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Tell the mayor to go pound sand.
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posted on
10/17/2014 11:35:50 AM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens. KILL THE BILL!)
To: Olog-hai
Pastors back:
Oh Sodom and Gomorrah you!
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posted on
10/17/2014 11:36:29 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Dunam, Duncan, man what infections these folks brought over.)
To: stephenjohnbanker
To: stephenjohnbanker
Tell the rug-munching mayor she’s going to Hell.
To: Olog-hai
“Sermons” are covered by “Freedom of Region”.
“Speeches” are covered by “Freedom of SPEECH”.
Duh.
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posted on
10/17/2014 11:38:10 AM PDT
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: Olog-hai
Annise and her lawyers can stuff it, they’re way over the top.
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posted on
10/17/2014 11:39:13 AM PDT
by
jazusamo
(Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
To: Olog-hai
And demoncrates say they hate “McCarthyism” and whitch-hunts!
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posted on
10/17/2014 11:39:29 AM PDT
by
DaveyB
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posted on
10/17/2014 11:41:12 AM PDT
by
DJ MacWoW
(The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
To: Olog-hai
Perhaps the pastors should offer this pervert mayor a free Exorcism.
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posted on
10/17/2014 11:41:24 AM PDT
by
Gator113
( Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin and Mike Lee speak for me, most everyone else is just noise.)
To: Olog-hai
Have these clowns ever heard the advise, “if you are in a hole, stop digging”?
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posted on
10/17/2014 11:42:21 AM PDT
by
Rumplemeyer
(The GOP should stand its ground - and fix Bayonets)
To: NorthMountain
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posted on
10/17/2014 11:43:27 AM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens. KILL THE BILL!)
To: Rumplemeyer
Oh, no - that would require that they acknowledge to themselves and to others that they were, in the words of the Fonz, “wwr....wrrooo....wrron...”
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posted on
10/17/2014 11:49:58 AM PDT
by
jagusafr
(the American Trinity (Liberty, In G0D We Trust, E Pluribus Unum))
To: Olog-hai
Next they will want their private diaries.........................These people should be run out of town on a rail...................
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posted on
10/17/2014 11:50:43 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
To: Olog-hai
Shove it your azz sideways and howl at the moon.
Will we be required to use “only” the king’s paper, with his watermark as well?
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posted on
10/17/2014 11:55:07 AM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: Olog-hai
We need a billionaire to set Mark Steyn up as a pastor in Houston with his own cable channel.
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posted on
10/17/2014 11:56:23 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("If you're litigating against nuns, you've probably done something wrong."-Ted Cruz)
To: Olog-hai
It seems the Texas AG has already settled this bunch of shysters’ hash with his letter to stop playing legal games in an area of Constitutional Law. Guess they can’t read...
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posted on
10/17/2014 11:56:33 AM PDT
by
T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
To: Dr. Sivana
Oh, and while we are at it, make Ezra Levant an honorary Rabbi with his own synagogue.
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posted on
10/17/2014 11:57:21 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("If you're litigating against nuns, you've probably done something wrong."-Ted Cruz)
To: Dr. Sivana
All your speech are belong to us.
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posted on
10/17/2014 11:59:06 AM PDT
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: Olog-hai
Mayor Anus Porker s**ts on the First Amendment once again.
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posted on
10/17/2014 11:59:26 AM PDT
by
Dr. Thorne
("Don't be afraid. Just believe." - Mark 5:36)
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