Houston mayor Annise Parker

Annise Parker is the first openly lesbian mayor of a major city, and upon becoming the mayor she wanted to make some changes for equal rights. She put into action a law that would make every public bathroom have to be transgender so that whether your a man or women the bathroom will be suitable for you. This would also mean that a man could use a women's bathroom and a women could use a men's bathroom. Just like on every matter some people agree and some don't, in this situation the Christian community disagreed with this law and tried to repeal it. they claimed to get 50,000 signatures saying they wanted to repeal this act but the city attorney said they did not have enough signatures, the required amount of signatures is 17,269. So the churches sued the city and then the city responded by issuing subpoenas for the sermons of five local pastors who were not even involved in the lawsuit of the people and the city over the signatures. This is where people said they line was crossed, they claim freedom of speech and freedom of religion. The city is saying the signatures are not legitimate and by issuing subpoenas for the sermons they can review the sermons and see if the pastors are directly encouraging the people to sign the ballot against the mayors new law. It is ok for a pastor to speak on a moral issue but it is illegal for a pastor to speak against a politician because of he or she's view on that moral issue. This is what I think the city is trying to accomplish by issuing subpoenas on the sermons. After saying that, I also think the mayor, because she is lesbian, probably isn't liking the church and wanting to hurt it in some way so she is taking them to court trying to get them in trouble. But I don't think it is necessarily a bad thing that the city issued subpoenas for the sermons to see if the signatures were legitimate, but being gay/lesbian is wrong that's where this whole debate has stemmed from, so don't be gay/lesbian.