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City of Houston demands pastors turn over sermons [Dealing With Homosexuality]
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| Published October 14, 2014
| By Todd Starnes
Posted on 10/15/2014 8:14:40 AM PDT by GonzoII
The city of Houston has issued subpoenas demanding a group of pastors turn over any sermons dealing with homosexuality, gender identity or Annise Parker, the city’s first openly lesbian mayor. And those ministers who fail to comply could be held in contempt of court.
“The city’s subpoena of sermons and other pastoral communications is both needless and unprecedented,” Alliance Defending Freedom attorney Christina Holcomb said in a statement. “The city council and its attorneys are engaging in an inquisition designed to stifle any critique of its actions.”
ADF, a nationally-known law firm specializing in religious liberty cases, is representing five Houston pastors. They filed a motion in Harris County court to stop the subpoenas arguing they are “overbroad, unduly burdensome, harassing, and vexatious.”
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; adf; anniseparker; catholic; charismatic; christianity; evangelical; homosexualagenda; houston; irs501c3; lutheran; moralabsolutes; orthodox; parker; protestant; texas
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posted on
10/15/2014 8:14:41 AM PDT
by
GonzoII
To: All
This is only the beginning of things to come I'm afraid but the Scriptures are clear, we win in the end.
I think my tagline is appropriate:
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posted on
10/15/2014 8:15:11 AM PDT
by
GonzoII
("If the new crime be, to believe in God, let us all be criminals" -Sheen)
To: GonzoII
Wow! Pray pray pray! Seriously only God can save us now.
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posted on
10/15/2014 8:16:14 AM PDT
by
vpintheak
(Keep calm and Rain Steel!)
To: GonzoII
To: GonzoII
To: GonzoII
To: GonzoII
Her response sure is callow and visibly over the top. Were I the churches there? I’d laugh and send copies of every sermon recorded on the topic (and even not) to the dear lady. And pray the Lord would let her out of her obviously bitter shell.
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posted on
10/15/2014 8:17:45 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: jsanders2001
Petition for her removal.
To: vpintheak
Only God really was salvation from the start. This is only a new revelation of the obvious.
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posted on
10/15/2014 8:18:38 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: GonzoII
No way will this survive in the Federal courts.
To: GonzoII
Fascism is here now.
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
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posted on
10/15/2014 8:18:54 AM PDT
by
Uri’el-2012
(Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your teaching is my delight.)
To: GonzoII
Waiting for the ACLU......................
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posted on
10/15/2014 8:19:19 AM PDT
by
Polyxene
(Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
To: GonzoII
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posted on
10/15/2014 8:19:23 AM PDT
by
Alex Murphy
("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
To: GonzoII
I think my tagline is appropriate: Charlie Sheen said that ?
;-)
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posted on
10/15/2014 8:20:15 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Gay State Conservative
It could be challenged there, but I’d call it an open invitation to evangelize her, and comply! She asked for it.
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posted on
10/15/2014 8:20:30 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: GonzoII
Did they subpoena the “sermons” from the mosques, too?
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posted on
10/15/2014 8:21:19 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Gay State Conservative
"No way will this survive in the Federal courts." That is where they want it to go. They are emboldened by SCOTUS. IMHO
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posted on
10/15/2014 8:21:24 AM PDT
by
GonzoII
("If the new crime be, to believe in God, let us all be criminals" -Sheen)
To: HiTech RedNeck
All the (real) churches need to have public prayer vigils, day and night, at her location to pray for her salvation.
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posted on
10/15/2014 8:21:24 AM PDT
by
polymuser
( Enough is enough.)
To: BookmanTheJanitor
> What about mosques?
Nah that would be too much trouble. Besides the imams would just behead the mayor.
To: GonzoII
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posted on
10/15/2014 8:22:42 AM PDT
by
miss marmelstein
(Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me)
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