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Texas Lesbian Democrat Reveals Her Party’s Anti-Christian Agenda

Posted on | October 16, 2014 | 58 Comments

Texas Democrats haven’t won a statewide election in recent memory, and it’s becoming obvious why they have no hope in the future:

Earlier this year [Houston Mayor Annise] Parker, a Democrat, spearheaded the passage of an “Equal Rights Ordinance” (ERO) that added “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to the city’s non-discrimination provision, which includes, among other things, “public accommodations” — for example, restrooms. Citizens, among them church leaders, balked. They launched a referendum petition that, with the requisite 17,269 signatures, would require the city council to repeal the ERO, or to put the measure up for a vote. They obtained 55,000 signatures. The city secretary, who has sole responsibility for certifying such petitions, signed off.
Enter Houston city attorney David Feldman, who, with no legal authority, disqualified 38,000 signatures. Names that were printed, rather than written in cursive, were discarded; names that were written in cursive were considered illegible — just enough names to get the petition below the 17,000-signature requirement, at which point the city council and Mayor Parker rejected it. And several citizens sued.
But the city’s shenanigans had only just begun. Unsatisfied with violating the rights of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, the City of Houston has subpoenaed privileged communications of five pastors (none of them party to the lawsuit) who helped to organize the petition drive. Among other information, the city is requesting communications between the pastors and their attorneys pertaining to the ERO lawsuit, communications between the pastors and their congregants, and even the pastors’ sermons. . . .

You can read the whole thing and see how, in the post-Windsor era, Democrats have decided that “equality” automatically voids every right guaranteed by the First Amendment: Opposition to the radical agenda is now effectively illegal, according to the Supreme Court’s 2013 Windsor decision as interpreted by Democrats. More details:

A subpoena on Pastor Steve Riggle, senior pastor of Grace Community Church, asks for “all speeches, presentations, or sermons related to [the equal rights ordinance], the Petition, Mayor Annise Parker, homosexuality, or gender identity prepared by, delivered by, revised by, or approved by you or in your possession.”
Alliance Defending Freedom, a national conservative legal group, filed a motion on Monday in Harris County district court objecting to the records request on First Amendment grounds.
“City council members are supposed to be public servants, not ‘Big Brother’ overlords who will tolerate no dissent or challenge,” ADF senior legal counsel Erik Stanley said. “In this case, they have embarked upon a witch-hunt, and we are asking the court to put a stop to it.”

This has legal ramifications far beyond Houston, and is by no means limited to the issue of same-sex marriage. What you see, if you look at this in a larger legal and cultural context, is that liberals have decided the “equal protection” clause of the Fourteenth Amendment trumps everything else in the Constitution or in Anglo-American common-law tradition, and that there is no protection whatsoever to those who oppose the “emerging awareness” doctrine proclaimed by the Supreme Court in the 2003 Lawrence v. Texas case.

Christians in Texas are not going to surrender without a fight, and every Democrat in Texas ought to be held accountable for what radical Democrats led by Annise Parker are doing in Houston. Every Democrat in the state should be publicly challenged by Republicans either to endorse Mayor Parker’s extremist agenda, or else to denounce it. And every Texas Democrat who claims to oppose Mayor Parker’s agenda should then be called upon to condemn any Texas Democrat who supports Mayor Parker’s agenda. It is high time, you see, that “moderate Democrats” stop pretending to be moderates, because the Democrat Party is not a moderate party.

Mayor Parker’s radical agenda is the agenda of the Democrat Party, not only in Houston, not only in Texas, but everywhere. The sooner Democrats are forced to admit this, the sooner the American people can decide whether they want to follow the Democrat Party down this highway to hell that Democrats are paving at taxpayer expense.

 

Category: Democrats, Gays, Texas

Comments

58 Responses to “Texas Lesbian Democrat Reveals Her Party’s Anti-Christian Agenda”

  1. DaTechGuy on DaRadio
    October 16th, 2014 @ 11:21 am

    Since Todd Akin’s remarks were attributed to the entire republican party I think every Democrat running in 2014 should be asked if they support subpoenas of pastor’s sermons to make sure they fit the proper agenda

  2. Earl Scruggs
    October 16th, 2014 @ 11:23 am

    Stacy your questions about challenging Democrats to defend or repudiate the actions in Houston presume a Republican party interested in opposing and damaging the Democrat brand.

    You would think that in TEXAS at least you might find that kind of Republican.

    So far, you would be wrong.

  3. RS
    October 16th, 2014 @ 11:23 am

    I have no doubt about two things: One, the subpoenas will be quashed. Two, this is a serious unforced error on the part the Dems. As you indicate, this debacle has provided a talking point for the ‘Pubs, not only in Texas, but across the country.

    Of course, that’s not to say that the Republicans won’t screw it up some how.

    Also worthy of note, if you look at a photo of the opposition you will see a majority of Black pastors. #Democrat War On Blacks? #Democrat War On Christianity?

  4. Adrienne
    October 16th, 2014 @ 11:36 am

    This morning at breakfast I asked the question, “When did it become okay to vote into office such publicly immoral people?”

  5. Jeff Lebowski
    October 16th, 2014 @ 11:48 am

    Just one quibble…Lawrence v. Texas was handed down in 2003. A typo, I bet. Other than that, spot on.

  6. Zohydro
    October 16th, 2014 @ 12:00 pm

    First they came for the Christians…

    (h/t) Rev. Martin Niemöller

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  8. RKae
    October 16th, 2014 @ 12:19 pm

    I’d really like someone to explain to me the difference between “emerging awareness” and group-think. (Other than one of them being “highly intellectual” and the other being “mind control,” of course.)

  9. RKae
    October 16th, 2014 @ 12:28 pm

    Gambling, pornography, adultery, fornication, divorce, abortion, profanity… What do these things have in common? They are all legal and they are all fair game for a pastor to preach against. (And the gamblers, porn addicts, adulterers, fornicators, etc. in his pews have the choice of listening or leaving.)

    Hey, gay people, homosexuality is legal. That’s all you can ask for. You’re done. Shut up and go away now.

    They don’t get it: They’ve hit the limit of what they’re allowed. But like a kid who has opened his last Christmas present and now has to eat breakfast and get on with another ordinary day, they can’t face it. They’re pouting and throwing a tantrum.

  10. Adobe_Walls
    October 16th, 2014 @ 12:41 pm

    All the more reason not to file motions but rather to dare to city to come and arrest them.

  11. Adobe_Walls
    October 16th, 2014 @ 12:42 pm

    What was the answer?

  12. Adobe_Walls
    October 16th, 2014 @ 12:43 pm

    Intellectualism.

  13. Adrienne
    October 16th, 2014 @ 12:43 pm

    When the public became immoral.

  14. Quartermaster
    October 16th, 2014 @ 12:46 pm

    Election outcomes reflect the electorate.

  15. Adobe_Walls
    October 16th, 2014 @ 12:51 pm

    Well this story has certainly taken a turn for the worse since I first read Quarantine Houston over at The Camp of the Saints two days ago.

  16. robertstacymccain
    October 16th, 2014 @ 1:27 pm

    Thanks. It was a typo. Correctedf.

  17. Zohydro
    October 16th, 2014 @ 1:27 pm

    I don’t suppose there’s any chance that Parker will resign—or, better yet, be arrested—is there?

  18. Adobe_Walls
    October 16th, 2014 @ 1:37 pm

    None, and certainly not now.

  19. Zohydro
    October 16th, 2014 @ 1:40 pm

    Hey, a bloke can still dream, can’t he?

  20. M. Thompson
    October 16th, 2014 @ 1:45 pm

    Pseudo intellectualism.

  21. Adobe_Walls
    October 16th, 2014 @ 1:47 pm

    Or perhaps merely amoral. Moral relativism is the kissing cousin of sociopathy.

  22. Adobe_Walls
    October 16th, 2014 @ 1:47 pm

    Quite.

  23. Animal
    October 16th, 2014 @ 2:19 pm

    Speaking as an atheist – a Republican, conservative (with some libertarian leanings) atheist – I find this chilling, even horrifying. Texas Christians would be absolutely right in openly defying these subpoenas (which are now, apparently, moot.) I would cheerfully stand beside them in protest of this totalitarian horseshit.

    Apparently the Mayor of Houston thinks that somehow the First Amendment no long applies in that city?

  24. Zohydro
    October 16th, 2014 @ 2:34 pm

    I think I can easily stand with the Christians on this one! I believe I always have stood with them if not always on the means, certainly on the goals…

  25. rpp618
    October 16th, 2014 @ 2:37 pm

    Homosexuals are mentally disturbed bigots.

  26. DeadMessenger
    October 16th, 2014 @ 2:38 pm

    That’s exactly what I’d do.

  27. DeadMessenger
    October 16th, 2014 @ 2:45 pm

    I don’t think legality was ever the goal anyway. Homosexuals have always done what they’re gonna do, and legality be damned. No, the agenda was always about closing churches and silencing Christians. Because they don’t understand that the Church is not a building, and neither they nor their father (John 8:44) can silence us. In fact, paradoxically, the church has traditionally become stronger under persecution.

  28. DeadMessenger
    October 16th, 2014 @ 2:48 pm

    100% agree…

  29. DeadMessenger
    October 16th, 2014 @ 2:52 pm

    The real tell would be the next mayoral election in Houston, but we can probably guess what that unfortunate outcome will be. Of course, raising a huge stink could possibly influence that now, but the more or less passive response that is actually happening virtually ensures Parker’s reelection.

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  32. Quartermaster
    October 16th, 2014 @ 3:44 pm

    AND, for the GOP to pound this through every DimoKKKrap candidate in the land. Won’t happen though because the GOP is much too “shy.”

  33. Adobe_Walls
    October 16th, 2014 @ 4:03 pm

    As I opined recently the LGBQTWHATTHEHELLISTHAT community is a very small fraction of the whole and is therefore vulnerable. They perceive a lack of absolute and mandatory acceptance as an existential threat to their existence. Whether real or imagined this “threat” will brook no boundaries to their totalitarianism.

  34. concern00
    October 16th, 2014 @ 4:17 pm

    While it is troubling and dangerous, on another level it’s almost welcome. This is and has always been the ultimate goal of their agenda, but they’ve been careful to hide behind a dictionary of euphemisms.

    The sooner the reality of unfettered deviancy versus Americans (Christian or otherwise) becomes clear, the sooner the battle-lines can be drawn and some of the deceived can re-assess their allegiances.

  35. Adrienne
    October 16th, 2014 @ 4:28 pm

    Amoral works…

  36. Cousin Tad
    October 16th, 2014 @ 5:16 pm

    Old white Christians are starting to realize their unquestioned running of things is coming to a quick demographic end so they’ve decided to yell at clouds. Bright.

  37. Adobe_Walls
    October 16th, 2014 @ 6:27 pm

    First the obligatory *down twinkles* because Disqus in a fit of political correctness stopped tabulating and identifying down votes.

    Totalitarian suppression can be a fearful weapon even if wielded by a tiny shrieking minority; do not mistake this phenomenon for demographics. Worms turn my friend and tolerance can only be mandated up to a point. Past that point tolerance becomes tolerism and the “gay rights” movement, in part by insisting that the increasingly bizarre (such as transgenders) are just like them, has gone way past that point. Going past the demand to be allowed to ”live and love” just like everyone else will prove their undoing. The civil rights movement made similar mistakes such as increasingly stringent affirmative action demands which was always a two wrongs make a right argument. The difference is African-Americans had (past tense) a much deeper reservoir of white guilt to draw from.

  38. boinkie
    October 16th, 2014 @ 7:37 pm

    Pastor Riggle was held hostage here in the Philippines during an attempted prison break and was one of the few survivors, so I doubt a simple lawsuit would stop him from preaching.

    http://www.gospelherald.com/articles/52901/20141015/city-houston-subpoenas-christian-pastors-sermons-speaks-against-homosexuality-gender.htm

  39. trangbang68
    October 16th, 2014 @ 8:28 pm

    Re-elect Anus Parker, a Fascist you can believe in

  40. trangbang68
    October 16th, 2014 @ 8:33 pm

    Yeah that’ right Taddie. Let’s turn over the controls to a bunch of freaks and grifters and degenerates. That ought to work out well. Your obligatory “old white Christians” blast shows what an ignorant jackoff you are. You know nothing about the demographics of Christianity.

  41. smitty
    October 16th, 2014 @ 8:43 pm

    Preach it!

  42. theoldsargesays
    October 17th, 2014 @ 1:02 am

    Ha!
    His name is Tad. Now THAT is gay!
    Go suck balls Tad.

  43. K-Bob
    October 17th, 2014 @ 1:40 am

    “Equality for everyone in my gang! Except the leaders, of course.”

    That’s filossafizin’ for the left.

  44. K-Bob
    October 17th, 2014 @ 1:44 am

    Ask?

    Assume!

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  46. brainpimp
    October 17th, 2014 @ 11:10 am

    That may be the most succinct, accurate description of the situation I have ever seen.

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  49. Bob Belvedere
    October 18th, 2014 @ 3:04 am

    THIS.

  50. Squid Hunt
    October 18th, 2014 @ 12:25 pm

    “Of course, that’s not to say that the Republicans won’t screw it up some how.”

    I don’t know whether to laugh or weep.