It took a couple of weeks of outrage at the trampling of religious liberty, but Houston Mayor Annise Parker is backing off on persecuting Christian pastors over their stance on gender-disorientation pathology. The Houston Chronicle reports, “The City of Houston will withdraw its controversial subpoenas of five pastors tied to a lawsuit over the city’s equal rights ordinance, Mayor Annise Parker announced at a news conference Wednesday.” But Parker was defiant, saying, “I didn’t do this to satisfy [critics]. I did it because it was not serving Houston.” Neither is she if that’s what being mayor means to her. More…