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Guess How Many Bibles Have Arrived at Office of Houston Mayor After She Subpoenaed Pastors’ Sermons
The Blaze ^ | October 28, 2014 | Erica Ritz

Posted on 10/29/2014 5:14:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Houston Mayor Annise Parker has received a flood of Bibles — somewhere between 500 and 1,000 according to a spokesman for the mayor’s office — after the city subpoenaed the church sermons of five local faith leaders opposed to the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance, which the mayor signed in May.

“This is more dangerous than anything I’ve ever seen,” Glenn Beck said last week after interviewing one of the five subpoenaed religious leaders. “This is not about equal rights. … This is about shutting people down.”

Steve Riggle, the pastor of Grace Community Church in Houston, told Beck that the city not only demanded his sermons, but anything he had said about Mayor Parker in 17 different forms of communication....

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TOPICS: Current Events; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; houston; lesbians; texas
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To: 353FMG

“Would it not have been better and more cost effective to have sent these Bibles to those who would have bothered to read them?”

You send the word of God where it is needed most and do your best to see to it that it is applyed and read.

There arnt too many places more in need of Gods word than the mayors office of Houston.


21 posted on 10/29/2014 6:12:45 PM PDT by Monorprise
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think I saw earlier today that Her Honor (using the term loosely) has withdrawn her subpoenas of the pastors.


22 posted on 10/29/2014 6:15:07 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: 353FMG

The Word never returns void


23 posted on 10/29/2014 6:18:08 PM PDT by nevermorelenore
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To: EDINVA

Sooooo, when’s the book burning?...


24 posted on 10/29/2014 6:18:17 PM PDT by null and void (And I think Kevin Bacon is doomed.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
But she also added that it was a “very productive way for folks who disagreed with our legal strategy to express that disagreement,” and she will be distributing the Bibles to local churches.

She'll have somebody take them in for her. They do have lightning in Houston.

25 posted on 10/29/2014 6:19:01 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Somebody send a Chumash!
26 posted on 10/29/2014 6:19:32 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Throne and Altar! [In Jerusalem!!!])
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To: Viennacon

“”He’s now pimping a video from the British Broadcast Communists, a far left outlet, with a video featuring pederast Elton John. Sick. My how the mighty have fallen.”””

Pimping or simply showing? I get his emails and there’s nothing about that.


27 posted on 10/29/2014 6:26:11 PM PDT by raybbr (Obamacare needs a death panel.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’d send Jonathan Edwards’ “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”


28 posted on 10/29/2014 6:30:20 PM PDT by Waryone
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To: barefoot_hiker
There's no question in my mind that if Americans weren't so heavily armed, the cattle cars and camps would already be in full swing.

Post of the day!

29 posted on 10/29/2014 6:31:56 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Throne and Altar! [In Jerusalem!!!])
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

happens every time when you put activist in power.


30 posted on 10/29/2014 6:40:57 PM PDT by jyro (French-like Democrats wave the white flag of surrender while we are winning)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

BTTT for that too.


31 posted on 10/29/2014 7:49:32 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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