Based on nothing but a decent imagination, I believe Houston Mayor Annise Parker was surprised at the blowback she received for her administration's effort to intimidate pastors who have spoken against that city's ordinance giving preferred status to homosexuals.
She doubtless knew that some disagreed with her, but I think she underestimated the level of outcry that followed the subpoenas issued for the sermons and other communications of five pastors who'd disagreed with her campaign to normalize what is not normal. She may not have intended, as she says, to issue such broad subpoenas, but I cannot believe she had any regrets prior to the bipartisan clamor.
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