{"id":268,"date":"2014-10-16T14:45:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T19:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conservativelefty.wordpress.com\/?p=268"},"modified":"2014-10-16T14:45:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T19:45:06","slug":"houston-accused-of-retaliating-against-pastors-tcot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"#Houston accused of retaliating against pastors #tcot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve talked to many who have said, &#8220;This couldn&#8217;t happen here.&#8221; \u00a0Well, guess what?<a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/political-correctness-voltaire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-168\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/political-correctness-voltaire.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"political-correctness-voltaire\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/political-correctness-voltaire.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/political-correctness-voltaire-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;line-height:1.5;\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/3842514776001\/houston-accused-of-retaliating-against-pastors\/?intcmp=latestnews#sp=show-clips\">Houston accused of retaliating against pastors | Fox News Video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not enough, though, to simply let these<br \/>\nProgressives back off their demand. \u00a0There\u00a0<em><strong>has<\/strong><\/em> to be consequences to punish this harassment. \u00a0If there are not, then <!--more-->two thinks happen.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>They keep trying until they find a venue that lets them get away with it. \u00a0Then they have a precedent.<\/li>\n<li>The threat &#8211; even if they have to back off &#8211; continues to be an unjust harassment.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>At the very least, there needs to be some sort of public &#8220;This was wrong&#8221; statement from the city&#8217;s government or council. \u00a0Not an apology \u00a0&#8211; that&#8217;s largely meaningless, but some admission that this was wrong. \u00a0I&#8217;d go for a recall, as well. \u00a0This wouldn&#8217;t be just because &#8220;we don&#8217;t like her,&#8221; but put in terms as a response for cause and wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0<em>is<\/em> a culture war. \u00a0It needs to be fought\u00a0<em>as<\/em> a war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve talked to many who have said, &#8220;This couldn&#8217;t happen here.&#8221; \u00a0Well, guess what? \u00a0Houston accused of retaliating against pastors | Fox News Video. It&#8217;s not enough, though, to simply let these Progressives back off their demand. \u00a0There\u00a0has to be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/?p=268\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3,5,9],"tags":[22,49,50,51,63,67,95,100,106,108],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-current-news","category-first-amendment","category-religion","tag-tcot","tag-culture-2","tag-culture-war","tag-current-events","tag-first-amendment","tag-gay-agenda","tag-overreach","tag-politics-2","tag-progressives","tag-religion-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yCHs-4k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativelefty.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}