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Sermon Subpoenas: Pastors Under Fire In Houston

By Rod Anderson, CP Cartoonist
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The first step toward criminalization of the American pulpit may have just been taken in Houston. It is a frightening moment not just for the church in America's fourth largest city, but for the pulpit throughout the United States.

Last June, after an intense public debate and the protestations of 400 Houston-area pastors, the City Council, at the behest of lesbian Mayor Annise Parker's administration, passed a non-discrimination ordinance that would permit men to use women's restrooms and women to access men's, based on trans-gender concerns among others.

A petition drive to put the Council's mandate on the ballot collected some 50,000 signatures, almost three times those required. The city administration rejected the petition, claiming irregularities. A group not including the pastors filed suit against the Council's action.

Now city attorneys are demanding sermons and other statements that will be inspected presumably for comments that might be construed as anti-homosexual.

Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/the-houston-subpoenas-and-the-criminalization-of-the-pulpit-128127/

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