The mayor of Houston has always fought for LGBT rights and her courage went a step further when she demanded that churches hand over transcripts of their sermons. Annise Parker is the first openly lesbian mayor of a major city and the city of Houston has really been transformed into a more tolerant metroplex than a backwater country boondocks of bigots. 
This incredible transformation has occurred in the past few decades and the last openly platform of bigotry in this country with any real Is the pulpits of churches and mosques that dot our nation and at times helps promote hate and intolerance towards the group this woman is a member. This has been a LNG time coming and it took the courage and the fact that a lesbian is finally in office for a politician to subpoena these sermons when church's are tax exempt establishments and the public has a right to low what goes on in these places and if indeed hate is being promoted inside these places. The religious nuts are up in arms crying about losing their rights of self-expression and pushing their hate agenda that has long been part of their cherished traditions but they really have n case nor liberty to have an agenda of hate. Cities have a right to enforce local ordinances for human rights protections for all its citizens and if there is a tax-based organization that is attempting to limit the equality and basic rights as a human being it needs to be established and exposed for all to see. Religious authorities have often tried to hide behind their books and religious liberties to spread intolerance and hate for those whom they decide are not equal or deserving of basic human protections that government has a role of establishing for all its citizens. Pastors have long held their positions to I fluency their parishioners to get n loved in the local government and decisions they have on society and this fact alone is reason enough to demand to read and address what they say in their churches.
This incredible transformation has occurred in the past few decades and the last openly platform of bigotry in this country with any real Is the pulpits of churches and mosques that dot our nation and at times helps promote hate and intolerance towards the group this woman is a member. This has been a LNG time coming and it took the courage and the fact that a lesbian is finally in office for a politician to subpoena these sermons when church's are tax exempt establishments and the public has a right to low what goes on in these places and if indeed hate is being promoted inside these places. The religious nuts are up in arms crying about losing their rights of self-expression and pushing their hate agenda that has long been part of their cherished traditions but they really have n case nor liberty to have an agenda of hate. Cities have a right to enforce local ordinances for human rights protections for all its citizens and if there is a tax-based organization that is attempting to limit the equality and basic rights as a human being it needs to be established and exposed for all to see. Religious authorities have often tried to hide behind their books and religious liberties to spread intolerance and hate for those whom they decide are not equal or deserving of basic human protections that government has a role of establishing for all its citizens. Pastors have long held their positions to I fluency their parishioners to get n loved in the local government and decisions they have on society and this fact alone is reason enough to demand to read and address what they say in their churches.
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