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Fury Unleashed Over City's Assault On Pastors -Houston Mayor's Subpoenas for Sermons Stirs Up Hornet's Nest

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Bob Unruh / WND

 

A move by Houston officials to bolster their defense of a “non-discrimination” ordinance by issuing subpoenas demanding pastors turn over sermons dealing with homosexuality has stirred such an outrage across America that 1,000 people per hour were signing a petition in opposition.

 

The Web petition set up by the Family Research Council had collected 25,000 names in 24 hours.

 

The latest total was nearly 38,000 names.

 

The signers are standing “unapologetically” with the Houston pastors whose sermons were subpoenaed, and their churches are calling on the city of Houston “to retract their demands and issue a clear statement in support of the free speech of all people.”

 

FRC noted Houston Mayor Annise Parker’s office has filed a subpoena demanding that five pastors  who oppose the ordinance turn over sermons, emails, text messages and even communications with members of their congregations.

 

The petition says Parker “has breached the wall of separation between the state and the church.”

 

“This attack on religious freedom and the freedom of speech should be universally repudiated by all Americans who value our constitutional freedoms,” the petition says.

 

“Thomas Jefferson once wrote that ‘religion is a matter which lies solely between man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions.’ The pulpit is to be governed only by the Word of God, and the chilling effect of government scrutiny of our pastors is unconstitutional, and unconscionable. Mayor Parker’s use of her bully pulpit to silence pulpit freedom must be stopped in its tracks.”

 

Read more at WND:

 

http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/fury-unleashed-over-citys-assault-on-pastors/



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    • GOLOC

      ALERT ALERT NEWS FLASH (Just Announced)
      NATIONAL STRIKE
      To Stop flights and Close Borders to US.
      Begins Monday thru Wednesday.

      • Master

        If a so-called christian pastor INCITES violence against ANY PERSON OR GROUP because of their Book of all male written BABBLE, Charge them with a crime, try them, and then imprison them!!!!!
        They will LOVE their New Flock!!!!
        :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
        The collection plate (and they money craved by the leeching judeo-christo-CRUD) totals will suck, though!
        :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:
        And for you moron HOARDING AMERIIscum members of judeo-christo-SCUM-THUG, let me tell you when YOU WILL KNOW FOR SURE THAT THE PERSECUTION OF YOU AND YOUR VILE GUTTER CREED will begin!

        When your “special” “Non-Profit” (HAHAHA!) Tax Exempt status – 501 (c) (3) AND 501 (c) (4) FOR “Religions” ENDS, returning to local, state and federal Tax coffers about $71 BILLION dollars per year, you will know for sure, josey wales, the christo-CREEP, THAT YOUR “age of judeo-christo-SCUM-THUG privilege’ IS OVER, HERE, in the united Fascist states of MILITARY TERROR your kind has fashioned, up till now!

        Every one of the members of THE WAR MONGERING Congress, as well as this sitting president, openly declare that they are members of judeo-christo-SCUMDUMB IN ORDER TO GET ELECTED!

        There IS ONLY ONE “GROUP” TO BLAME for the current THUG government, here, in the united Fascist states of MILITARY TERROR they have created.
        So called “christians”, the most LEECHING special interest group that has ever existed here, in the united Fascist states of MILITARY TERROR!!
        And these despicable “christian” leeches send their young adults off to die on the whim of their WAR CRIMINAL “Leaders”!!!!!!!!!
        :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

        • iamamerican

          Calm down “Master” and please take your red pill, or is it the blue pill? For one thing the preachers ARE NOT INCITING VIOLENCE on anybody, the nazi fascist lesbian mayor however seems to think that the constitution and bill of rights specifically the 1st amendment are only written for “them”. The LGBT population in this country is only 3% and half of them are militant nazi authoritarian pieces of excrement. I never had a beef lesbians or gays until they went psycho on everybody, now they are just totally out of control.
          The people of Houston voted in an openly lesbian mayor, what did they think was going to happen? They get what they deserve and deserve what they get which is total tyranny.

        • Hi NSA, kiss my artichoke

          You come across as a rabid liberal.
          One that seems to understand nothing the Book teaches.
          You always manage to come across so rabid that I wonder if you’re not on the Presidents Personal Panel of Poossie Perverts.
          The Government here was usurped many years ago, it isn’t run or controlled by Christians anymore.
          Though, thank God, the Christians are waking up to the danger more and more everyday.
          This Country was made and brought to greatness by GOD.
          Using His People to do it.
          Blessing and protecting us when we were worthy of such, spanking us when we forgot His ways.
          People like you are WHY we get spanked.
          Fortunately, people like you are the minority.
          People like US WILL have OUR country back from the likes of you.
          HE has said so, nuf said.

    • anyoneamongUS

      We are about to have to go to war for our CHRISTIAN BELIEFS……. we have been passive for far too long…….while we have been asleep, the enemy has been growing……. it appears that evil never rests in this world that we live in! now, we are going to be ‘required’ to take a stance……. history has always shown that you cannot look the other way(what we today call ‘ acceptance and/or tolerance’) and expect that evil will go away on its own……. all that it takes for evil to ‘thrive’ is for the rest of us to just remain quiet/passive…(paraphrasing Edmund Burke)

    • Ideas Time

      Governments Have Descended to the Level
      of
      Mere Private Corporations
      Supreme Court Building
      Clearfield Doctrine
      Supreme Court Annotated Statute, Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States 318 U.S. 363-
      371 1942
      Whereas defined pursuant to Supreme Court Annotated Statute: Clearfield Trust Co. v.
      United States 318 U.S. 363-371 1942: “Governments descend to the level of a mere
      private corporation, and take on the characteristics of a mere private citizen . . . where
      private corporate commercial paper [Federal Reserve Notes] and securities [checks] is
      concerned . . . For purposes of suit, such corporations and individuals are regarded as
      entities entirely separate from government.”
      What the Clearfield Doctrine is saying is that when private commercial paper is used by
      corporate government, then government loses its sovereignty status and becomes no
      different than a mere private corporation.
      As such, government then becomes bound by the rules and laws that govern private
      corporations which means that if they intend to compel an individual to some specific
      performance based upon its corporate statutes or corporation rules, then the government,
      like any private corporation, must be the holder-in-due-course of a contract or other
      commercial agreement between it and the one upon who demands for specific
      performance are made.
      And further, the government must be willing to enter the contract or commercial
      agreement into evidence before trying to get the court to enforce its demands, called
      statutes.
      This case is very important because it is a 1942 case that was decided after the UNITED
      STATES CORPORATIOON COMPANY filed its “CERTIFICATE OF
      INCORPORATION” in the State of Florida (July 15, 1925). And it was decided AFTER
      the ‘corporate government’ agreed to use the currency of the private corporation, the
      FEDERAL RESERVE. The private currency, the Federal Reserve Note, is still in use
      today.
      References:
      (i) Articles of Incorporation of UNITED STATES CORPORATION COMPANY
      http://anticorruptionsociety.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/articles-of-incorporation-of-u-scorp-
      company.pdf
      (ii) From The Great American Adventure by Judge Dale, retired. (pages 93-94)
      http://anticorruptionsociety.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/the-great-american-adventurecomplete-
      work-by-judge-dale.pdf
      [4] Corporations are not and can never be SOVEREIGN. They are not real, they
      are a fiction and only exist on paper.
      5] Therefore, all laws created by these government corporations are private
      corporate regulations called public law, statutes, codes and ordinances to
      conceal their true nature. Do the Judge and your lawyer know about this? You
      bet they do!
      6] Since these government bodies are not SOVEREIGN, they cannot promulgate
      or enforce CRIMINAL LAWS; they can only create and enforce CIVIL LAWS,
      which are duty bound to comply with the LAW of CONTRACTS. The Law of
      Contracts requires signed written agreements and complete transparency! Did
      you ever agree to be arrested and tried under any of their corporate statutes?
      For that matter, did you ever agree to contract with them by agreeing to be sued
      for violating their corporate regulations?
      [8] Enforcement of these corporate statutes by local, state and federal law
      enforcement officers are unlawful actions being committed against the
      SOVEREIGN public and these officers can be held personally liable for their
      actions. [Bond v. U.S., 529 US 334-2000]
      (iii) Our Government is Just Another Corporation
      http://anticorruptionsociety.com/is-our-government-just-another-corporation/

    • kp56mt

      sounds like this degenerate mayor is using her office to pursue a personal agenda, instead if doing what she was elected to do. she is the one who should be on trial for wasting taxpayer money on nonsense. :grin:

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