Cuz wrote from Astan, telling us of the Porker plan to subpoena all the ministers in the Houston area to make sure they are not preaching against her gay/lesbian agenda.

Originally Posted By Herman Cain.

I just need to move one county over.

I think she might be looking under the wrong rock.

Blow Back, how does it work?

She's going to step on the land mine most democrats manage to avoid. The black vote is in the tank for them until they attack the ministers.

Where's my popcorn?

I've been reading posts on this all day.  One thing just about everyone has gotten wrong is Anise Parker had something to do with this.  This is all the city attorney.  He's doing what attorneys do best, making friends.

Since no one has posted it in this thread:

We mayor now.

I think it was outside counsel who did it. In fact, I bet a paralegal pulled a request for discovery document from another case, changed the names to fit the current case and filed it. Overreaching discovery is SOP for civil litigation. Ask for everything even if its unreasonable and argue it in front of the judge. Sometimes you get lucky.

The Fault lies with the person who needed to think through what they were doing.

The city attorney claims he never read it. That is likely true or perhaps he only scanned it and didn't think about what it was asking. Regardless, he committed malpractice against his client, the citizens of the city.

Doesn't the Gay Mayor have a political commissar to help review these things like Eboma does?

That is the slant some people are putting on it, but it isn't accurate.  They can preach about whatever they want and no one is trying to stop them.  They can preach that homosexuality is bad, but they can't use the church for certain political activities. Since churches don't pay taxes they are subsidized by those of us that do and they can't use our money for political activities.  If they want to give up their tax exempt status they can do whatever they want.  The subpoenas were issued because of a lawsuit that was filed by the churches against the City and are for sermons that were previously given during a specific time period, not for sermons they plan on giving.  It appears some churches may have violated the law in the way they gathered signatures to force a repeal referendum.  I have no love for Mayor Anise Parker (especially the way she gave the City Attorney a 43% raise this year to try and get same sex benefits for her wife), but some religious groups aren't being totally honest in the way they are presenting this in the media.


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I'd rather pay taxes than compromise.  

Anise Porker is pretty close sounding to Anus Porker which sounds pretty homoerotic to me.

I'm suddenly hungry, and horny, at the same time.  

I heard her speak the other night to the TX Freedom Network in Austin and she sure seemed happy to take credit for it then. This is how i remember it:
"We won't let those dirty conservatives block our freedom of speech and keep us away from voting with Nazi I'd laws......
.......hooray for blocking conservative free speech and lets pull an acorn at the polls this november"

Anise Poker and Wendy Davis can hold hands, eat each other's pussies and go to hell.

That is some sick shit right there. The mental image will stay with me awhile now.