Posted on 10/29/2014 10:05:10 AM PDT by Gamecock
The City of Houston will withdraw its controversial subpoenas of five pastors tied to a lawsuit over the city's equal rights ordinance, Mayor Annise Parker announced at a news conference Wednesday.
The announcement came amid a national firestorm about the subpoenas, which have prompted outrage among Christian conservatives. Parker said two meetings yesterday, one with local pastors and another with national clergy, persuaded her to pull the subpoenas altogether.
The subpoenas are part of a discovery phase in a suit filed by equal rights opponents, who largely take issue with the rights the law extends to gay and transgender residents.
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...at least until AFTER November 4...
She’ll be out of office come Jan. 2016. She is term limited.
Joel Osteen the rockstar evangelist sat this one out?
Pray tell us more.......
Osteen is a salesman, nothing more, nothing less.
Osteen and the mayor are tight.
Besides, he isn’t called to preach on homosexuality. Said so himself.
City should drop mayor.
Ping
There was some guy that even invoked his Roman citizenship at one point.... :)
Because she didn’t want to bring about a national discussion on religious expression, she says, not because of any doubt about the merits of her case.
I think it means she thinks she can win but she doesn’t want everyone discussing religious freedom.
Is that a weird thing to say or what?
That is why I call him Joel Obama now.
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