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Houston's First Openly Gay Mayor Demands Pastors Turn Over Their Sermons
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You're wrong
QamYasharahla
All Star
I'm 'wrong' yet you didn't bother to prove me wrong? Good job..
Dameon Farrow
Superstar
This is some Nazi style nonsense. And I don't throw that around casually. Political Correctness has gotten us a lot of advantages, no lie. But it's gonna backfire with little stuff like this. Especially with us losing more and more political clout to gays and immigrants.
But I sound like some kind of conservative talking like that and we know that's a dirty word. So to fit in with the crowd, I'll just agree that the sermons should be turned over immediately and hope nothing this evil ever comes across my own doorstep.
Fit in with the crowd, brehs. Be passive and have no backbone because you are afraid to alienate those who would alienate you without pause, brehs. Agree with overstepping of bounds and think it can't happen to you, brehs.
But I sound like some kind of conservative talking like that and we know that's a dirty word. So to fit in with the crowd, I'll just agree that the sermons should be turned over immediately and hope nothing this evil ever comes across my own doorstep.
Fit in with the crowd, brehs. Be passive and have no backbone because you are afraid to alienate those who would alienate you without pause, brehs. Agree with overstepping of bounds and think it can't happen to you, brehs.
The only restriction they have is based on political things.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c)_organization#501.28c.29.283.29
QamYasharahla
All Star
First off, that CLEARLY would influence what they can preach as I've already stated especially since ANYTHING can be deemed 'political'. And the fact that the church is designated a corporation made by the State, they cannot take advantage of the 1st Amendment thereby HINDERING what they are able to teach.
"A 501(c)(3) corporation, being an artificial person, is not considered a person under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution (religious liberty clause) or under the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution (protection against selfincrimination clause). Therefore, an incorporated church has NO First or Fifth Amendment rights. In the case Johnson vs. Goodyear, 127 Cal.4 (1899): 'A corporation, being an artificial person, only has rights within the meaning of the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and similar provisions of State constitutions and within the meaning of state statutes.'" [i.e. Your 501(c)(3) church has no constitutional rights.]
-Barbara Ketay, "The 501(c)(3) Incorporated Church: The Real Truth," Biblical Law Center, retrieved July 23, 2012, [http://www.gracealoneca.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/the_real_truth_of_501c3.pdf]
Most of this stuff is common knowledge if someone actually takes the time to look.
@posting a fukking Hannity video to introduce a topic.
Here's a more objective reporting job on it.
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/new...ons-from-subpoenas-fails-to-quiet-5830564.php
Basically the city has an equal rights ordinance that bans anti-gay discrimination in public and private employers that is controversial. A church claims that there isn't legal validity behind the law because of some dispute on how signatures were counted and they sued the city. Houston responded by issuing subpoenas to counter the lawsuit. Church leaders complained that the language was too broad and it specifically mentioned turning over sermons. The Mayor re-issued subpoenas that removed mentions of sermons, but didn't preclude it either. The Mayor is claiming that they need to the church's legal petition process, and that could include sermons.
The church thinks the city is infringing on their religious liberty/privacy. The city is basically saying you can't actively intervene in the political process, such as giving instructions on legal petitions and then claim freedom of religion shields you from legal consequences. This a pretty important case on the topic of separation of church of state, and it isn't one that be presented with a Fox News clip.
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