{"id":48091,"date":"2014-10-15T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T17:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=48091"},"modified":"2014-10-15T12:54:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T17:54:55","slug":"democrats-pissing-on-the-first-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=48091","title":{"rendered":"Democrats: Pissing On The First Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Houston last summer, the Democrat-run government passed an “anti-discrimination” ordinance which, like most such ordinances, did little about discrimination but did sodomize freedom of association. \u00a0 It was opposed by a variety of religious groups, for a variety of reasons.<\/p>\n

But that was just the warmup.<\/p>\n

Perhaps inspired by Barack Obama’s siccing of the IRS against dissenters, Houston’s Democrat-run city government is looking for payback against dissenters; it’s subpoenaing ministers’ sermons from the run-up to the vote for the ordinance.<\/p>\n

That’s\u00a0subpoenaing<\/em>; not just sternly asking:<\/p>\n

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The city of Houston has issued subpoenas demanding a group of pastors turn over any sermons dealing with homosexuality, gender identity or Annise Parker, the city\u2019s first openly lesbian mayor. And those ministers who fail to comply could be held in contempt of court.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe city\u2019s subpoena of sermons and other pastoral communications is both needless and unprecedented,\u201d Alliance Defending Freedom attorney Christina Holcomb\u00a0said in a statement.<\/a>\u00a0\u201cThe city council and its attorneys are engaging in an inquisition designed to stifle any critique of its actions.\u201d<\/p>\n

ADF, a nationally-known law firm specializing in religious liberty cases, is representing five Houston pastors. They\u00a0filed a motion in Harris County court\u00a0<\/a>to stop the subpoenas arguing they are \u201coverbroad, unduly burdensome, harassing, and vexatious.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Dear Wisconsin “Jon Doe” prosecutors; I take it back. \u00a0You are no longer the most corrupt pettifoggers south of the Fed.<\/p>\n

And this is not an aberration. \u00a0This is every Democrat, everywhere in the country<\/em>. \u00a0Oh, they make nice noises about “liberties” like making dung statues of the Virgin Mary and waving their genitals around in public; but when it comes to the real ones, speech (by people not favored by the ACLU’s ministrations, meaning people from flyoverland in general), assembly, association, the fruits of ones labor, self-defense, self-determination?<\/p>\n

If your local Democrats haven’t sicced the IRS, or a prosecutor, or their county attorney, on you yet, it’s just that they haven’t had a clear opportunity yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

All eggs to be broken to make the state omelet.<\/p>\n

PS: \u00a0Don’t you dare\u00a0<\/em>say there’s a war on religion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Houston last summer, the Democrat-run government passed an “anti-discrimination” ordinance which, like most such ordinances, did little about discrimination but did sodomize freedom of association. \u00a0 It was opposed by a variety of religious groups, for a variety of reasons. But that was just the warmup. Perhaps inspired by Barack Obama’s siccing of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48091"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48122,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48091\/revisions\/48122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}