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

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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.

 

58 comments

  1. 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. 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. 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?

  8. 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. 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.

  15. 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.

  23. 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. 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…

  27. 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.

  29. 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.

  32. 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. 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. 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.

  36. 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. 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.

  40. 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.

  47. […] Writing of this and other similarly innovative “rights,” such as “gay marriage,” veteran journalist Robert Stacy McCain notes, “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.” […]

  48. […] Writing of this and other similarly innovative “rights,” such as “gay marriage,” veteran journalist Robert Stacy McCain notes, “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.” […]

  50. “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.

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