BIG BROTHER IN TEXAS: HOUSTON DEMANDS PASTORS TURN OVER SERMON NOTES, PRIVATE COMMUNICATIONS

[Geee]

Breitbart:

After decades of warnings on the right about liberal politicians threatening religious liberty, a Democratic mayor in Texas is now subpoenaing pastors to turn over their sermons.

Houston city officials are demanding that city pastors opposed to Houston's "Bathroom Bill"--"a law that allows members of the opposite sex into each other's restrooms"--turn over sermon notes and "communications with church members" to ascertain which pastors have (or haven't) "opposed or criticized the city."

The Houston City Council passed the "Bathroom Bill" in June and in July citizens of the city responded by collecting three times the number of signatures needed for a referendum to have the measure repealed. The Houston Chronicle reported that citizens gathered over 50,000 signatures for the referendum, where only 17,269 were needed to put it on the ballot.

Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF)--a law firm for religious liberty--says the City Secretary then certified the petition, "but the Mayor and City Attorney defied the law and rejected the certification."

[RandyM]

I think the ADF will prevent this nonsense in Houston from going any further, but you can bet there will be more attacks.

 

Houston now on my growing list of places to avoid.