Terrell Dye Ex- Vandy Footballer, Coach Bear BryaNT AND DR. H., THE WORLD'S MOST OUTSTANDING KIBITZER THANK YOU TERRELL D AND RALPH H!

Terrell Dye is a former co-worker at Dupont. I have given him a hard time over the years regarding his time spent as a Vandy halfback and his ability, as a Tennessee hillican, to maintain the GPA of a Vandy student. He did both!

Regards,

Ralph

From: Terrell Dye [mailto:dyete@msn.com]
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2014 6:01 AM
To: Ralph Hovermale
Subject: RE: Big Brother strikes- 1984 was 30 years ago

At Vanderbilt I played against Bear Bryant for three years and in 1962 I recovered a fumble in the end zone they were number 2  in the nation at the time .
Joe Namath was the Quarterback. They only beat us by a score of 17 to 7.

In 1961, Bear Bryant came on TV the night before the game in Nashville and complained about how those big old Boys from Vanderbilt were going to be hard on his little lineman. Of course they beat us pretty badly.
 

> From: rhovermale@columbus.rr.com
> To: rhovermale@columbus.rr.com
> Subject: Big Brother strikes- 1984 was 30 years ago ... Thx Ramey H!
> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 12:21:20 -0400
>
> Subject: Big Brother strikes- 1984 was 30 years ago
>
> By Todd Starnes
> Published October 14, 2014
> FoxNews.com
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> Houston Mayor Annise Parker (AP)
> The city of Houston has issued subpoenas demanding a group of pastors
> turn over any sermons dealing with homosexuality, gender identity or
> Annise Parker, the city’s first openly lesbian mayor. And those
> ministers who fail to comply could be held in contempt of court.
> “The city’s subpoena of sermons and other pastoral communications is
> both needless and unprecedented,” Alliance Defending Freedom attorney
> Christina Holcomb said in a statement. “The city council and its
> attorneys are engaging in an inquisition designed to stifle any
> critique of its actions.”
> ADF, a nationally-known law firm specializing in religious liberty
> cases, is representing five Houston pastors. They filed a motion in
> Harris County court to stop the subpoenas arguing they are “overbroad,
> unduly burdensome, harassing, and vexatious.”
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> “Political and social commentary is not a crime,” Holcomb said. “It is
> protected by the First Amendment.”
> The subpoenas are just the latest twist in an ongoing saga over the
> Houston’s new non-discrimination ordinance. The law, among other
> things, would allow men to use the ladies room and vice versa. The
> city council approved the law in June.
> The Houston Chronicle reported opponents of the ordinance launched a
> petition drive that generated more than 50,000 signatures – far more
> than the 17,269 needed to put a referendum on the ballot.
> However, the city threw out the petition in August over alleged irregularities.
> After opponents of the bathroom bill filed a lawsuit the city’s
> attorneys responded by issuing the subpoenas against the pastors.
> The pastors were not part of the lawsuit. However, they were part of a
> coalition of some 400 Houston-area churches that opposed the
> ordinance. The churches represent a number of faith groups – from
> Southern Baptist to non-denominational.
> “City council members are supposed to be public servants, not ‘Big
> Brother’ overlords who will tolerate no dissent or challenge,” said
> ADF attorney Erik Stanley. “This is designed to intimidate pastors.”
> Mayor Parker will not explain why she wants to inspect the sermons. I
> contacted City Hall for a comment and received a terse reply from the
> mayor’s director of communications.
> “We don’t comment on litigation,” said Janice Evans.
> However, ADF attorney Stanley suspects the mayor wants to publicly
> shame the ministers. He said he anticipates they will hold up their
> sermons for public scrutiny. In other words – the city is rummaging
> for evidence to “out” the pastors as anti-gay bigots.
> Among those slapped with a subpoena is Steve Riggle, the senior pastor
> of Grace Community Church. He was ordered to produce all speeches and
> sermons related to Mayor Annise Parker, homosexuality and gender
> identity.
> The mega-church pastor was also ordered to hand over “all
> communications with members of your congregation” regarding the
> non-discrimination law.
> “This is an attempt to chill pastors from speaking to the cultural
> issues of the day,” Riggle told me. “The mayor would like to silence
> our voice. She’s a bully.”
> Rev. Dave Welch, executive director of the Texas Pastor Council, also
> received a subpoena. He said he will not be intimidated by the mayor.
> “We’re not afraid of this bully,” he said. “We’re not intimidated at all.”
> He accused the city of violating the law with the subpoenas and vowed
> to stand firm in the faith.
> “We are not going to yield our First Amendment rights,” Welch told me.
> ‘This is absolutely a complete abuse of authority.”
> Tony Perkins, the head of the Family Research Council, said pastors
> around the nation should rally around the Houston ministers.
> “The state is breaching the wall of separation between church and
> state,” Perkins told me. ‘Pastors need to step forward and challenge
> this across the country. I’d like to see literally thousands of
> pastors after they read this story begin to challenge government
> authorities – to dare them to come into their churches and demand
> their sermons.”
> Perkins called the actions by Houston’s mayor “obscene” and said they
> “should not be tolerated.”
> “This is a shot across the bow of the church,” he said.
> This is the moment I wrote about in my book, “God Less America.” I
> predicted that the government would one day try to silence American
> pastors. I warned that under the guise of “tolerance and diversity”
> elected officials would attempt to deconstruct religious liberty.
> Sadly, that day arrived sooner than even I expected.
> Tony Perkins is absolutely right. Now is the time for pastors and
> people of faith to take a stand. We must rise up and reject this
> despicable strong-arm attack on religious liberty. We cannot allow
> ministers to be intimidated by government thugs.
> The pastors I spoke to tell me they will not comply with the subpoena
> – putting them at risk for a “fine or confinement, or both.”
> Heaven forbid that should happen. But if it does, Christians across
> America should be willing to descend en masse upon Houston and join
> these brave men of God behind bars.
> Pastor Welch compared the culture war skirmish to the 1836 Battle of
> San Jacinto, fought in present-day Harris County, Texas. It was a
> decisive battle of the Texas Revolution.
> “This is the San Jacinto moment for traditional family,” Welch told
> me. “This is the place where we stop the LGBT assault on the freedom
> to practice our faith.”
> We can no longer remain silent. We must stand together - because one
> day – the government might come for your pastor.
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