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.
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)?
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.
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.
How nice of them. I guess they’ve hired too many new public servants who really have nothing better to do.
Of interest relative to this thread:
The IRS publicly admitted in 2012 they don’t have the right to remove tax exemptions for political speech. The only people who believe they do are the liberal pastors of conservative congregations.
I disagree with this glib assumption. I think most activist victim-minority churches will indeed endorse a candidate; but conservatives believe in work and accountability, personal responsibility and the rule of law. They are greatly less likely to risk their churches' tax-exempt standing by breaking a well-understood law.
"The... Democrats need church involvement in... political activities just as much as Republicans. They aren’t going to risk a Constitutional challenge to the law.... the government isn’t going to enforce a law that both parties understand is unconstitutional."
Again, hopelessly naive. This author has never heard of the concept "selective enforcement."
I myself have given a message on Lev 18: 22 to make the point that if we approve sodomy in America, the LAND will be defiled and vomit us out, and God told the Jews if they allowed it, they would lose the land God gave them. Romans 1:32 tells us that we are guilty of sin if we approve of the sin even though we didn't commit the sin. I thought it might make the pastor nervous, but apparently he had no problem with it. Our whole revolution was preached from the early American church and many pastors fought in the war. To make some subjects off limits is to limit God and I don't think you can do that. I would welcome an investigation because it would inevitably be stopped by the courts.
It would also be a nightmare for Islam. Can you imagine a Christian church getting sanctioned for preaching against abortion and sodomy, and a Mosque getting away with preaching the assault on women, or the stoning of sinners? How about the overthrow of the government? Installing Sharia Law? Is Islam more "tolerant" of sodomy?
If it's in the book, it's in the book and I will preach on it.