Posted on 07/25/2014 6:23:09 AM PDT by LeoMcNeil
Not one black church will be monitored. Not one.
Ah. This would explain why The REVEREND Al Sharpton and The REVEREND Jesse Jackson never invite anyone to attend their services.
No church, no pulpit, no problem.
The IRS recently settled a case against it brought by the Freedom From Religion Foundation (ISUS).
There. Fixed it.
My Pastor will continue to observe Pulpit Freedom Sunday.
Perhaps FFRF will go after mosques next.
Bwa ha ha ha ha haaaaaaa!
Sometimes I say the craziest things.
Except if Herman Cain or equivalent preaches.
Uh, the Freedom From Religion junkies are already free from religion.
Nobody is compelling them by threat of force to attend any sermons that may offend their delicate sensibilites.
What they are doing is VIOLATING THE FIRST AMENDMENT by siccing a GOVERNMENT AGENCY on churches that exhibit FREE SPEECH with political content during the FREE EXERCISE of their religion.
Let’s try this again, shall we?
CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW REGARDING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION NOR PROHIBITING THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF
What is so bloody hard to understand about that? How much plainer can it be?
And what about the bloody MoHamHeads that preach several times a week from their pulpits to promote the extermination of the Jews and murder, rape, subjugation and enslavement of the “kaffir” (non-Muzzloid)?
Of course, you’re right.
Well, that’s a given. He isn’t down for the struggle.
The phrase “Separation of Church and State” came from a letter from Jefferson to the Danbury Baptists where the Baptists were concerned the state would interfere with their worship of God. Jefferson re-assured them that there was a separation of church and state and that government would never interfere.
Fast forward 238 years and the meaning now means the opposite of what it did back then.
Technically Americans don't lose their First Amendment rights... ever.
Interesting. Politics and “religion” are sometimes one in the same.
How, for instance, does a pastor talk about the coming anti-Christ and one-world government, and persecution of Christians and Jews without mentioning the current administration?
The IRS begged for the lawsuit. So it could “settle”.
Amen, bro. EVERY Sunday should be Pulpit Freedom Sunday.
In fact, it already is. It's enshrined in our Constitution. Congress shall pass no law establishing a religion nor prohibiting one.
IRS law does not supercede The Constitution.
ObamaDon'tCare notwithstanding.
The law is that the government can't run their show, i.e., establish a religion. This is a good example....They're making up church rules.
Abolish the IRS.
Muzzie mosques won’t be monitored either.
Nobody puts a gun to the heads of church members to take the tax deduction. If they turn it down the Federal government has no leverage on them.
If you make yourself a puppet of the state don’t be surprised when the government yanks your strings.
Churches do not require 501c3 status. They are automatically exempted from taxation on formation. The reason churches incorporate under this statute is to limit liability for the leadership.
The 501c3 regulations bring the church under IRS jurisdiction and the rules are invasive.
There is no reason a church should incorporate. Church leaders should be prepared to take full personal responsibility and defend their churches from the state. Churches were the original town halls and true church leaders would never have sold their souls for government pottage.
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