Lesbian Houston Mayor Goes After Churches

[AAAintheBeltway]

That's a perfectly respectable legal theory, just not in this country.

 

[stu]

That's a perfectly respectable legal theory, just not in this country.

Sorry dude, I didn't realize you live in North Korea.

 

[dbphoenix]

Religious organizations enjoy contitutional freedom from government regulation of speech.

If they give up their tax-exempt status, you bet. Otherwise, they have to follow the same rules as any other like group.

 

[DHOHHI]

Once again LGBT want SPECIAL rights ...

funny how we didn't have a change in Houston where men could use women's bathrooms and vice versa when there was a straight mayor.

 

[fhl]

No I don't.
The government isn't forcing churches to hand over sermons. If the subpoena doesn't stand court scrutiny it will fail anyway. If it does, it must contain important and relevant information directly concerning the case.

In that regard, everyone including holier than thou religious dick brains like yourself, are not above the law.

First you say there's nothing wrong with a subpoena of a sermon, then you say there is.
Mr smarter than thou can't seem to make up his mind.
It appears that all you have on your mind is dicks.

 

[Lucrum]

The outcry about this was because they went after the sermons, mr smarter than thou idiot.

 

[jem]

stu has undergone many changes over the years. I suspect he has had a least 3 different writers.. I can not be sure the current person who is stu is not a lawyer right now... I guarantee the previous interation of stu had no training in united states jurisprudence.

but since this stu might... why don't you tell us how allowing a mayor to issue a subpoena for Sundays sermons does not have an unconstitutionally chilling impact on free speech and religious speech in the context of this case.

 

[LEAPup]

LOL! This is nothing more than an attempt to silence those preaching from the Bible. We've known that sooner or later, big gubment will take us out in cuffs for both preaching His word, and receiving His word. Yeah, free speech is basically shot in the ass now. Later, will be a felony to be seen preaching teh word in public. And yeah, come and put some cuffs on me coppers, as I DO guarantee you'll wish you'd resigned the day before, after trying to enforce an illegal, and immoral action against me, such as this! This is where Christian folk need to stand up, and let them know, have gun will shoot if pushed another inch!

 

[LEAPup]

The real question is how did a major city in very red Texas elect a mayor that leans way left of most liberal politicians?

The answer is directly linked to the large number of New Orleans residents that were displaced by Katrina and stayed in Houston.

Nobody wants to discuss what a complete disaster this has become for Houston. The violent crime rate soared. The need for increased public benefits/services and housing nearly broken the finances of the city. The Houston school system went from being adequate to one of the most violent in the nation. Even the relatively high starting salary of $49,100 has not been able attract new teachers to Houston despite them holding teacher recruitment fairs in nearly every state in the U.S. including North Carolina.

Houston has now turned into the Detroit of Texas.

So how did this mayor get elected? It involved the new residents just pulling the level labeled "Democrat" in the voting booth - because they were promised more free stuff.

You nailed it all the way through!!! I'm from that shithole called New Orleans, and was visiting 10 days before Katrina, and went back after the smoke cleared to help Family with the nightmare. The "pilgrims" were literally bussed west on I-10, all the way into the city they're now ripping apart, like the animals that they are. I wouldn't live in Houston now if my ass was on fire, and they had the water buckets! And yeah, this is the same trash that REFUSED to leave so they could stay behind and steal, then when nothing worth taking was left, they wound up bussed to Texas, where they remain, and where they do NOTHING but steal, rape, cheat, and kill. Love those Pilgrims!And if I could just get my hands on a slave master from back when! After mopping the deck with him, and just before shooting him, I'd tell him just how "thankful" we are for the lovely contribution.

 

[LEAPup]

stu has undergone many changes over the years. I suspect he has had a least 3 different writers.. I can not be sure the current person who is stu is not a lawyer right now... I guarantee the previous interation of stu had no training in united states jurisprudence.

but since this stu might... why don't you tell us how allowing a mayor to issue a subpoena for Sundays sermons does not have an unconstitutionally chilling impact on free speech and religious speech in the context of this case.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!! You mean this stu I have on ignore wants to ALLOW some shit like that, and DARE call himself a liberal!?? LOL!!! Of course, the word liberal is used often by the trash to describe themselves, but wonder if anyone ever showed them the difference between a REAL liberal, and the fascists that they really are??