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  • The city of Houston attempted to subpoena 17 different types of communications belonging to several area pastors in a lawsuit in which the pastors were not even involved.
  • The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Legal Counsel Erik Stanley regarding the Texas Supreme Court’s decision Friday that requires the city of Houston to either repeal or put to a vote a city ordinance that qualified for the ballot but that city officials illegally kept off. Those officials, including Mayor Anise Parker, also unsuccessfully attempted to subpoena the sermons and communications of pastors, known as the “Houston 5,” whom ADF represented in Woodfill v. Parker: “Public officials should not be allowed to run roughshod over the right of the people ...
  • The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Legal Counsel Erik Stanley regarding the city of Houston’s preliminary response Friday to an ADF motion to quash the city’s request for the sermons and communications of pastors in Woodfill v. Parker: “The city of Houston still doesn’t get it. It thinks that by changing nothing in its subpoenas other than to remove the word ‘sermons’ that it has solved the problem. That solves nothing. Even though the pastors are not parties in this lawsuit, the subpoenas still demand from them 17 different categories of information – ...
  • The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Litigation Counsel Christiana Holcomb regarding the unsupported claim that the city of Houston is “backing off” or “narrowing” its subpoena request for the sermons and communications of pastors in Woodfill v. Parker: “The shame that the city of Houston has brought upon itself is real, but the claim that it has changed course is not. The city so far has taken no concrete action to withdraw the subpoenas. Furthermore, the subpoenas themselves are the problem – not just their request for pastors’ sermons. The city is not off the ...
  • The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Legal Counsel Erik Stanley regarding Houston Mayor Annise D. Parker’s decision Wednesday to withdraw the subpoena of sermons and other communications belonging to several area pastors in a lawsuit in which the pastors are not even involved: “The mayor really had no choice but to withdraw these subpoenas, which should never have been served in the first place. The entire nation--voices from every point of the spectrum left to right--recognize the city's action as a gross abuse of power. We are gratified that the First ...
  • Member of U.S. Commission on Civil Rights asks Mayor Annise Parker to withdraw demand for pastors’ speeches, private communications
  • Angry over voter lawsuit, city demands to pick through sermons, other communications from pastors who aren’t involved