Recall the wench!
The issue is whether prohibition against state interference of free exercise is in the Texas Constitution, which it is almost certainly is.
Keep it at the state level. The feds have no constitutional right to interfere in this matter.
If they are really interested in some scandalous talk, bug a mosque.
A judge had to sign the papers. So they must be constitutional or the judge wouldn’t be fit for office?
That’s okay, Parker uses the new “living Constitution” and it says that only liberals have rights.
That idiot mayor probably just handed Abbott and the Republicans the election in Texas, and perhaps elsewhere.
Fascism and statism... Terrible ideas that just keep coming back, because mankind is weak and lusts for power and control.
‘Rats don’t care about the C
Now it is time for the state to start working a case for removing the judge who issued the subpoena from the bench.
The bulldyke of Houston against the churches of Texas...Gee I wonder who will win.
501 c3 organizations must forfeit their rights as organizations, to political speech in order to retain that IRS designation. If they tried to influence voting through their 501 C3 organizations, they would be in violation of their 501 C3 status, as I understand it.
When they are speaking as individuals OUTSIDE of their organizations, then the constitutional rights kick in to protect them as persons.
I don’t know how much actual profit a church actually has, and I’m talking about actual profit. If there is no actual profit (as a business defines profit), then the tax protection afforded by the 501 C3 designation could be moot. There would be no taxes. So, why then, would a non-profit business relinquish it’s freedom of speech and influence?
Churches/assemblies/synagogs are supposed to be salt, that is, it should flavor society, flavor it to be ‘righteous’ as God defines what HE thinks is righteous. The 501 C3 status has sufficiently squelched that influence, by restricting speech. I’m not sure if 501 C3 is truly ‘constitutional’ in spirit.
Due to the changes within society which are occurring, sentiments which go against obedience and worship of God, it could prove to be in the best interests of organizations calling themselves ministries of God, to relinquish the tax protection in favor of being a ministry of God, rather than an agent of the government to squelch speech which they (the government) are calling ‘political’ rather than social.
Politics is the art of changing minds while the church seeks to change minds through the spirit...BOTH are in the ‘same’ business. The ‘protections’ of 501 C3 in effect, squelches the ‘competition’.
Now, only the government can tell people what it thinks the people should think, or do. The proof is in the demand by the mayor, and the mayor’s attorney.
This is definitely an opportunity for the PEOPLE to tell those two individuals where the dog died.
RECALL!!!!
Thank you AG Abbott
I hope Governor-Elect Abbot can figure out a way to curb these liberal pigs on the local level.
18 U.S. Code § 242 - Deprivation of rights under color of law, and
18 U.S. Code § 241 - Conspiracy against rights
Yes, I know, he's state and doesn't have federal jurisdiction, but how much you want to bet he knows federal prosecutors and/or grand juries?
(Grand juries should really exercise their powers of presentment more often, especially against government officials.)
Does this even have to be said?
WTH is wrong with the American People?
If you ever wondered how the German People so easily followed Hitler into the Abyss, wonder no more.
The fastest way to stop this dead is for another mayor in a red state to go after black churches using the exact and I mean exact words, methods and statements of this crew. Just cite their own electioneering.
Never again will you see a lib go after a church.
Is it ‘right’? Not at all. Should they do it? Absolutely. Hardball.
This is what I can’t understand. The mayor’s actions are so anti-first amendment I just an’t believe that anyone, even a raging lesbian democrat, could do such a thing.
I guess she really thinks that people are so dumb and ignorant that she could get away with it. And I find that unbelievable.
Satan’s two choices.....1. Don’t “judge others” and accept deviant behavior on the grounds of “Christian tolerance”. 2.Make the matter a political, constitutional question and reject deviant behavior as a matter of patriotic freedom.