Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Houston and separation of Church and State

One of the Fucked Four has crossed the line. Again. We all know that there is no mention of "separation of Church and State" in the Constitution, the first amendment simply prohibits government from establishing a state-run and supported religion or compelling citizens to adhere to a specific religion. It was NEVER meant as a means for government to control how or even if citizens worship. However, that is how secularists use it. So now Houston has subpoenaed churches to hand over transcripts of sermons dealing with homosexuality, gender identity or Houston's openly lesbian mayor, Annise Parker. Suppression anyone?

“This is an attempt to chill pastors from speaking to the cultural issues of the day,” Riggle told me. “The mayor would like to silence our voice. She’s a bully.”
David Welch, pastor of Bear Creek Church and director of the Houston Area Pastor Council, also received a subpoena. He said he will not be intimidated by the mayor.
“We’re not afraid of this bully,” he said. “We’re not intimidated at all.”
He accused the city of violating the law with the subpoenas and vowed to stand firm in the faith.
“We are not going to yield our First Amendment rights,” Welch told me. ‘This is absolutely a complete abuse of authority.”
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6 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 14, 2014 at 4:00 PM

    Thank you!!!! I am so tired of trying to explain this concept to those that use it to try to use it to silence everyone that they don't agree with.

    BTW, did you see that DropBox was hacked? The hackers are releasing emails addresses and passwords to the general public. They're drumming up Bitcoin funds, and the more they receive, the more emails/passwords they're going to release.

    -CM

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  2. Jesse, boiling in DCOctober 14, 2014 at 4:47 PM

    Every church so subpoenaed, should produce a copy of the bill of rights, Highlight the first amendment, underline the part about "free exercise of religion", and mail it to them with a not very polite cover letter.
    Leftards.... stealing every freedom that is not nailed down... Since 1913...And you wonder why they want to disarm us ...

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  3. VolframOctober 14, 2014 at 5:07 PM

    CM: good thing Dropbox has a clause in the TOS I can't agree to.

    I will never use Dropbox. Or any service which requires me to waive my right to class action lawsuit*.

    *Steam excepted, as they provided something in exchange(they'll pay your legal fees if there's a dispute), PayPal gave me an exemption, and eBay uses the same TOS as PayPal.

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  4. tsquaredOctober 15, 2014 at 8:13 AM

    Send them a Bible, the Constitution, and Bill of Rights.

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  5. AnonymousOctober 15, 2014 at 10:11 AM

    Do you believe that the Constitution (including the legitimately passed amendments) should be followed as written without exception? If so, and assuming that there is no prohibition of this in the Constitution of the state of Texas, the city of Houston has every right to do it.

    If you don't believe me, do a little research on something called "incorporation doctrine". It is one of the worst things that ever happened to our Constitution.

    David Martin

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  6. StretchOctober 15, 2014 at 2:02 PM

    I'm sure the dear mayor will also be serving local mosques with similar subpoena.

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Play nice. None of you are too old for a spanking.