Posted on 11/02/2014 9:16:17 AM PST by Kaslin
Should we make an example of her?
Absolutely.
I was born in Waco, Texas, and lived in Houston, so I’ve got a dog in this hunt. Really, we all do.
Houston Mayor Annise Parker has disqualified herself from the privilege of serving the people of south Texas. She must either resign, effective immediately, or Houstonians should begin, without delay, the process of recalling her from office. Strike while the iron’s hot, I say, and right now it’s glowing cultural Marxist red.
Parker has been caught, cold, with her hand in the totalitarian cookie jar. She has, on multiple counts, betrayed her oath of office. She’s put her own radical self-interests above the best interests of her constituents and has all but spit on the very U.S. Constitution she’s sworn to uphold.
This woman (I’m loath to lend her credibility by calling her “Madam Mayor”) has revealed herself to be a single-issue-driven sexual extremist with zero regard for the rule of law. While Parker is now backpedaling on her unconstitutional sermon subpoenas faster than a dyslexic cyclist in the Four de Trance, she is, nonetheless, pushing ahead like Lance Armstrong on steroids with her unlawful subversion of Houston’s citizen petition process (arbitrarily tossing out nearly three-quarters of the already validated petition signatures needed to put her utterly insane gender-neutral “bathroom bill” up for a vote by the very people whose privacy it sexually assaults). This single act of political corruption alone has disenfranchised every single Houston resident.
These gross abuses of power have shocked and outraged millions of Americans across the country on every point of the political spectrum. Attorney, best-selling author and columnist David Limbaugh distilled nicely the controversy in an Oct. 16 column titled, “Fascist leftists in Houston”:
“There are at least three outrageous things about the Houston city government’s recent actions pushing an ordinance to allow men and women to use each other’s public restrooms,” began Limbaugh. “The first is the substance of the ordinance itself, which allows men and women, irrespective of their biology, to use bathrooms designated for the opposite sex.”
Indeed. As I noted in my own column the very next day,
“[B]ecause it’s now illegal to ‘discriminate based on the basis of gender identity’ in Houston, and since it’s the only ‘tolerant’ thing to do, men who sign up for the ever-persecuted ‘LGBT’ class have secured the hard-fought ‘civil right’ to fully expose themselves to, and otherwise ogle, your daughters in the ladies’ room.
“Yay ‘gay rights’!”
Which brings us to Parker’s second offense – another that, despite her having now withdrawn the unlawfully issued sermon subpoenas in a panicked frenzy, remains both unresolved and unpunished.
Continued Limbaugh: “The second outrage is that the city has greatly overreached in subpoenaing the pastors of the city for copies of their sermons and their communications to their congregations to determine whether they have violated this Godforsaken ordinance. Lest you think this was a mistake, the mayor tweeted, ‘If the 5 pastors used pulpits for politics, their sermons are fair game.’”
Sermons are fair game? Uh, actually, no, Mrs. Stalin. In fact, hell no. Despite a bevy of “progressive” rationalizations to the contrary, this couldn’t be further from the truth.
First, notwithstanding the decades of mythical “church-state separation” nonsense spread by the Communist-founded ACLU, there is no legal proscription that would, or even could, prevent pastors from “politicking from the pulpit.” Doing so is their unalienable First Amendment-protected right. These are the issues that belong in the pulpit. This outrageous bathroom bill, and others like it, directly touch and concern matters of faith, morality and culture. Christians didn’t politicize this debate; lefty nut burgers like Annise “I-am-lesbian-hear-me-roar” Parker did.
Furthermore, the 1954 Johnson Amendment, which itself is facially unconstitutional, only presumes to prevent pastors from endorsing or opposing, on behalf of their tax-exempt church, candidates from the pulpit. Nowhere does it even hint at prohibiting them from addressing, opposing, or supporting legislation or ballot initiatives.
Moreover, none of the pastors whose sermons were subpoenaed were even party to the lawsuit. No reasonable judge or attorney would dream of trying to make a case that anything they ever said or did could, in anyway, be “reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence,” which, as any pre-law student with a pulse can tell you, is a fundamental must.
Finally, and as Limbaugh concludes, “The third outrage is the city’s lawless disqualification and rejection of valid petitions filed by voters to challenge the law. Voters submitted more than three times the legally required number of petition signatures to require city action (17,269 were required, and the voters submitted a whopping 55,000), and the city secretary initially certified them as sufficient in number. But the mayor and city attorney outright rejected the petition anyway, on the specious grounds that the petition signatures weren’t valid.”
This, my friends, is nothing short of fascism – lawlessness. It’s unabashed political corruption, out front and in your face. Forget Parker’s brazen attack on religious liberty and her twisted dudes-in-the-ladies’-shower ordinance. This disgusting abuse of power alone demands she be booted out the door posthaste.
I don’t care whether you’re Republican or Democrat, conservative or “progressive,” this should shock and infuriate you. If Parker’s allowed to get away with this while Democrats are in control, what’s to stop Republicans from doing the same thing when they run the show?
In Thursday’s “Washington Update,” Tony Perkins, president of FRC Action, boiled it down: “With the circus of the subpoenas out of the way, the country can start focusing on the real problem: the sexual tyranny that comes with redefining marriage. As far as the five pastors targeted by Parker are concerned, pulling the subpoenas makes room for the real debate over religious liberty.
This week, the five released a joint statement about their intent to fight on. ‘If and when she withdraws these subpoenas does nothing to mitigate her willingness to trash the Constitution for her own agenda and covering up her crime of stealing our right to vote.’
“Their attorney, Andy Taylor, is happy to bring the media’s attention back to the lawsuit at hand. ‘The truth is, she’s using this litigation to try to squelch the voting rights of over a million well-intentioned voters here in the city of Houston,’ Taylor pointed out. ‘It’s very simple why we filed a lawsuit: Because they won’t do what the city constitutional charter requires them to do.’”
At some point America is going to have to start pushing back against the rising tide of secular-”progressive” totalitarianism.
Parker’s head’s gotta roll.
The author may have lived in Houston but he doesn't understand the local politics. The next mayor won't be a Republican just as the past mayors were not Republicans. Additionally, the next mayor will be selected by the Downtown business partnership just as the previous mayors were.
Our open elections do permit challengers (Democrat and Republican) but any time a Republican actually gets close to challenging the office, we are told that it is a "partisan" race. I've never voted for a winning mayor in this city.
Our next mayor could even be another homo (George Greanias). He's had a shot at it in the past. He weathered a sex scandal (surfing for "rent boys" from work as CEO of Metro on company time on company equipment) with support from the current mayor. It all depends on how much he's willing to play ball with the land developers and movers and shakers in this city.
Maybe she’s angling for an appointment in the Hillary Clinton administration.
I don't follow you. Republicans aren't allowed to run for office?
Republicans are allowed to run for office. Democrats are allowed to run for office of mayor too. There is no primary, it is an open election. There can be 3 Democrats against 2 Republicans. If there is a run-off, it is between the top two voter getters, regardless of party.
IF a Republican challenger enters, the media and Rat Party gang up to keep him out of the run off.
The Houston Comical/Chronicle is part of that Downtown business alliance. They editorialize in their news coverage (and an internal memo advocating such action was once publicly leaked on their webpage) to slant elections. The city only has one local newspaper and the local broadcast news doesn’t typically cover what goes on in local government.
Wow. I had no idea. What a sh*t-hole.
How the hell did Texas allow this Sea Hag get into Office?
The same way they elect Sheila Jackson lee
As I recall, she was fairly low-key about it until she became mayor. I don’t live inside Houston proper, so I don’t follow those elections very closely.
Houston Mayoral elections are every 2 years, it’s up in Nov 2015 and this *itch is term limited.
An electable conservative Republican needs to be gearing up for the race NOW.
Yep....it is one year. She somehow needs to win that city election, to hang on, hoping that some Demo wins in 2016 and picks her up as a VP or cabinet officer.
The problem is...she has two boat anchors now. She pushed for public bathroom agendas (a comical political topic for national audiences), and pushed for sermons to be tossed into a court debate (a loser topic in the state of Texas).
Hard to figure how someone who had some potential for national office, got talked into the bathroom/sermon mess.
Not hard for me to believe. Here in New Jersey we elected a fat-ass, Lou Costello look-a-like f**king RINO. I voted for the guy the first time. He wasn’t going to make a sucker out of twice.
Texas is lost, so is California. The occupation of a foreign insurgency by mexico is too great to overcome. Wish it wasn’t so, but the occupied usually are in denial after a conquest.
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