http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/15/houston-pastor-sermon_n_5992044.html?utm_hp_ref=politics&ir=Politics

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Houston-gays-pastors-sermons/2014/10/15/id/600874/


I'm sure by now you know I'm a bleeding heart liberal yada, yada... but regardless of what the pastors are preaching about

or getting petitions signed about, they have every right to do so without any type of government sticking it's nose in. If this is allowed to go on

it's just another slip down the slope of invasion of privacy and denial of first amendment rights we've already started to slide down.

thoughts?

This post was edited by Valhalls_Sun on Oct 18 2014 05:14pm

I don't think pastors should be forced to hand over their sermons. Unless they are inciting to violence or something like that.

That's funny, my time machine must be broken. I could've sworn it wasn't set to 1984...

I'm in favour of this.

Anti-hatespeech laws should be enforced in every country in the developed world in my opinion. We have them here in England.

When in a public area you shouldn't have the right to say whatever you want. Encouraging discrimination against any oppressed minority should be illegal.

This post was edited by Scaly on Oct 18 2014 05:43pm

...one might think that if there existed an LGBT agenda this is one way it might manifest , the misuse of government authority to suppress speech that is perceived as anti-gay .

Wonder how much objection there would be to this if they replaced the word 'homosexual' and it's synonyms in their sermons with the word 'negro'... Or even better if they were black and replaced it with the word 'cracker'.

Or if they were Muslims and replaced it with the words 'infidel', 'christian' or 'westerner'... They'd likely wind up in GITMO under anti-terrorism laws for that last one.

This post was edited by Scaly on Oct 18 2014 05:41pm

While I might not agree with their views, it's clear that this is violating their rights. Not only that but you see the city's agenda pretty clearly in this, they're mad that this group of individual is against their new law and they are trying to discrediting them by showing they're bigot ( which they probably are but it's beside the point ).

you'd be supporting this if it was targeting mosques under the guise of preventing terrorism

Surely if they are 'against their new law' then what they are doing could be illegal? Is investigation where have reason to suspect criminal activity a breach of the possible perpetrator's rights?

This post was edited by Scaly on Oct 18 2014 07:13pm

...or Hindu terrorists trying to liberate our beef supply and all the monkeys in our zoos .