Things are heating up in Houston! Please go the Family Research Council's website and sign the petition for the city to cancel the subpoenas for pastors' communications, sermons, and emails. This is a brazen breach of our Constitutional right to free speech in this country.


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

“The shame that the city of Houston has brought upon itself is real, but the claim that it has changed course is not. The city has so far taken no concrete action to withdraw the subpoenas. Furthermore, the subpoenas themselves are the problem – not just their request for pastors’ sermons,” she said.

“The city is not off the hook from its illegitimate request for emails, text messages, and other communications in which these pastors, who are not even party to this lawsuit, may have disagreed with the mayor. The way to fix this is to withdraw the subpoenas entirely. Otherwise, the city’s and the mayor’s overtures are simply more window-dressing intended to shield them from public scrutiny.”


Fox News commentator Todd Starnes, wrote: “We can no longer remain silent. We must stand together – because one day – the government might come for your pastor.”


“Furious with local pastors for leading the pushback [to the bathroom bill], Parker decided to get her revenge by ordering a Soviet-style crackdown on area churches,” an online statement said.

“In a story that’s spreading like wildfire, the mayor had the nerve to subpoena pastors for their sermons, text messages, photographs, electronic files, calendars, and emails – ‘all communications with members of your congregation’ on topics like homosexuality and gender identity.

“If she thought her religious ‘inquisition’ would scare pastors, she’s got another thin coming. Local Christians are more outraged than ever, igniting a firestorm that could awaken a sleeping giant in churches from coast to coast,” the statement said.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., joined in: “No minister, anywhere, should ever have to submit a sermon to a government censor.”

Texas Ministers warn Houston Mayor - "Don't Mess With Texas Pastors"

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http://sonsoflibertymedia.com/2014/10/pastors-lesbian-houston-mayor-dont-mess-texas-preachers/

As I reported on earlier, Houston’s lesbian mayor Annise Parker and her city council have failed to uphold the law. The first failed by allowing her homosexual activities, second in the proposition of a “bathroom bill” that would allow men to use women’s bathrooms, and third by ignoring the law concerning a citizen’s initiative to turn her warped bill on its head. As a result, a lawsuit has been filed and a discovery process has begun as a subpoena has been issued to receive the sermons and communications of many pastors in the area. Now the pastors are speaking out and they have a warning for Parker and her gang: Don’t mess with Texas preachers.

Executive Director of the Texas Pastor Council Dave Welch, one of five pastors who received the subpoena, said he would not be intimidated by Parker nor comply with the city’s demands.

“My answer to that is – bring it on,” he said.

Not one of the five pastors is listed as a plaintiff in the lawsuit, which was filed after the citizens’ initiative drew more than three times the required signatures, was certified by the city secretary and then rejected by Parker and the city’s attorney.

Welch spoke with Todd Starnes of Fox News and told him that Lone Star State pastors are organizing to hold a “Don’t Mess with Texas Pulpit Sunday” event.

“We are dealing with bullies used to getting away with abuse of power,” Welch told Starnes. “We called their bluff on this.”

...........What’s even more interesting is that apparently Mayor Parker pulled a Barack Obama when it came to the subpoena of the pastor’s communications and sermons. According to Attorney Feldman, Parker had nothing to do with the subpoenas and that she was never informed. However, when Starnes pressed him on when she became informed, Feldman said, “When you guys broke the story.” Doesn’t that sound just like Barack Obama’s statement, “I learned about it in the news”?

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Please go to the Family Research Council's website link below and sign the petition in support of Texas preachers to resist the city council and mayor's attempt to breach/violate their First Amendment rights to free speech. This is an attack on God, on the Bible and on the Constitution. First it happens in Texas and if they get away with this lawless action you will see it spread state to state.

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I already have, and I highly encourage the rest of you to do the same. Please pray that God will grant a complete legal victory to these pastors!