Houston sermon-subpoena update

Mayor Parker is backing down - well, a bit, anyway:

As reported by KTRH Mayor Parker admitted that the subpoenas were too broad, and that the pastors' sermons should not have been included. "It’s not about what did you preach on last Sunday," she said. "It should have been clarified, it will be clarified." City Attorney David Feldman had an odd admission of his own: that he had not reviewed the subpoenas before they were issued. "When I looked at it I felt it was overly broad, I would not have worded it that way myself," said Feldman.  "It's unfortunate that it has been construed as some effort to infringe upon religious liberty."

City officials told KTRH that they would narrow the scope of the subpoenas, but it is not clear how they will address the other concerns voiced by the pastors regarding their free speech and religious liberty issues with the rest of the items requested by the subpoena.

Ah, those pesky "other concerns."

So the lesbian mayor caught a whiff of the public's understanding that this was a move more suited to Cuba or North Korea than to a major Texas city.

In classic FHer fashion, in the style of the Most Equal Comrade, she had found a way to make her totalitarian move all about herself:

it was bad enough when she began to refer to her partner as the “first lady.” (What does that make Mayor Parker?)

But it went beyond bad when Mayor Parker made clear that getting an LGBT ordinance passed in Houston was an “intensely personal” thing to her. Yes, she said, “The debate is about me. . . . It's not academic. It is my life that is being discussed.”

What happened to her being an elected official who was put in office to serve the people? What of the massive outpouring of calls to other elected officials protesting the bill?

As Rev. Max Miller of the Baptist Ministers Association of Houston and Vicinity stated in response to Parker’s public comments, “One thing we did hear: It's personal. You cannot represent the people of this city on a personal matter.”

Or, as expressed by conservative City Councilman Michael Kubosh, also responding directly to Parker in the same public meeting, “I know you say it's about you, but, mayor, this is really about all of us. It's not really about you; it's about everybody here.”

Narcissism and tyranny - that distinctive FHer combination that makes the brand so appealing to  - um, an ever-dwindling number of post-Americans.