Mayor Annise ParkerHouston Mayor Annise Parker has decided not to subpoena the sermons of pastors who led a drive to put a controversial Equal Rights Ordinance on the ballot, but she's still refusing to accept the valid signatures of 50,000 citizens who want to vote on the new law.
Commissioner Peter KirsanowAnnise Parker, the openly gay mayor of Houston, got a tongue-lashing this week from a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights for demanding copies of the sermons and e-mails of five Houston pastors who supported a citizen-led initiative to defeat a controversial transgender law.
