ORWELLIAN: Houston Demands Oversight Of Pastors’ Sermons
By Robert Gehl October 14, 2014
In a shockingly Orwellian move, Houston officials are demanding to see the contents of sermons from area pastors who are against the city’s new non-discrimination policy for transgenders.
After the city council adopted its “Equal Rights Ordinance” which allows transgenders and “gender-confused” persons to use any restroom they please, voters filed suit and area pastors lined up behind them.
Furious with the lawsuit and the pastors, the city subpoenaed the pastors for copies of their sermons and all other communication from the pastors to their congregations. The city wants to know who is against the ordinance and what they said.
The Alliance Defending Freedom quickly filed a motion to quash the subpoenas, citing – well – the Constitution.
“City council members are supposed to be public servants, not ‘Big Brother’ overlords who will tolerate no dissent or challenge,” said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Erik Stanley. “In this case, they have embarked upon a witch-hunt, and we are asking the court to put a stop to it.”
“We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.” C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
“We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.” C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
"City council members are supposed to be public servants, not ‘Big Brother’ overlords who will tolerate no dissent or challenge,” said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Erik Stanley. “In this case, they have embarked upon a witch-hunt, and we are asking the court to put a stop to it.”
When ideologues start imposing their ideology on others we've lost the American dream of coexisting with people of diverse opinions and backgrounds. Then totalitarianism results and everything that is not approved gets punished. Wow and we're already there in Houston.
******************* “You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.” ¯ Richard P. Feynman
When the LBGT community demands equality, what they really mean is they want an elevated status. Rather than being treated like everyone else they want to be a protected class of people with special rules. Keeping with this hypocrisy, at least one Huffington Post writer is furious that anyone could possibly be proud to be straight. Only gays are allowed to be proud of their sexuality in the equal but unequal world of homosexuality.
Straight Pride…Really? is as much of a hissy fit as you could imagine. Apparently there is a growing social media movement of straight people posting pictures and proclaiming their pride of normal sexual behavior.
there's more at the site.
******************* “You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.” ¯ Richard P. Feynman
"Straight Pride" doesn't bring down the wrath of the self-appointed gods as much as "White Pride" does.
"White pride is a slogan indicating pride in being white. The slogan is primarily used by white separatist, white nationalist, neo-Nazi and white supremacist organizations...
Philosopher David Ingram argues that "affirming 'black pride' is not equivalent to affirming 'white pride,' since the former—unlike the latter—is a defensive strategy aimed at rectifying a negative stereotype". By contrast, then, "affirmations of white pride—however thinly cloaked as affirmations of ethnic pride—serve to mask and perpetuate white privilege".
Critics have argued that ideas such as white pride exist merely to provide a clean public face for white supremacy. They say that the unstated goal of the white nationalist movement is to appeal to a larger audience, and that most white nationalist groups promote white separatism and racial violence."
Straight white pride must be really bad! I can't think of anything worse.
******************* “You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.” ¯ Richard P. Feynman
******************* “You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.” ¯ Richard P. Feynman