Posted on 07/19/2016 9:01:10 PM PDT by gspurlock
If I had any lingering doubts about Donald Trump being the best possible candidate for President, he erased them with his announcement of Mike Pence as his preferred VP.
It is not about Mike Pence, although he is a great selection.
Go to 13:40 in his announcement speech.
At that point in the speech, Mr. Trump explains the "Johnson Amendment". This was an amendment to the US Tax code in 1954 proposed by Senator Lyndon B. Johnson and eventually passed that prohibited Pastors, Ministers and Priests from addressing political issues in their sermons on the penalty of losing their tax exempt status.
Churches have been cowering to political correctness because of that particular tax code. We have witnessed the deterioration of the church's influence on society. We have witnessed the deterioration of our society.
The liberal/socialist/communist/democrats have made every possible social issue into a political issue. Because of this law, our clergy have been silenced on all social issues. Our church membership has continued to dwindle as the churches were prohibited from addressing the preeminent social issues of the day by this insidious, reprehensible tax code.
Mr. Trump, President Trump, is going to get this egregious tax code repealed.
This is not news. David Barton of Wallbuilders included this information in his American Heritage series a decade ago. Yet, not one single conservative Christian politician has had the courage or foresight to even address it.
I love Ted Cruz and expect he will be President one day, but here and now, we need Donald Trump. He is fearless. He is honest.
He will drill down to the ultimate truth of any matter that presents itself and resolve it with dispatch that will make lesser minds spin. And most minds are lesser than his. It's not just that we could do worse, it's that it would be very difficult for us to do better than to elect Donald Trump as President of these United States of America.
thx for posting that. i watched the whole event after you posted. my bro has tds. and is much more politically knowlegdable than i. i don’t think he sees this side of trump. There is a spiritual blindness in my humble opinion of many Christians on where the war is going to be fought.
I never said you said it had anything to do with the First Amendment.
A lot of people, over the years, have.
Nothing I said was a criticism of what you wrote.
Thanks for the clarification. I have spent the past 8 years studying history and the corruption of our Constitution by legal means. This was one of the”small” corruptions that has had devastating consequences. Donald Trump dug in and found it faster than I did and identified it as something to be corrected while running a campaign and dueling with Ted Cruz. Pretty amazing for the lightweight the media has been portraying Trump. This is a man of substance.
His IQ is 156.
I’ve read that Trump is “totally incurious.” We heard that all the time about Reagan. A Catholic columnist wrote that Trump has NEVER done anything in the nature of public service.
A bunch of slanderers, and they feel entitled, because it’s politics.
Common sense will tell you he is indeed a man of substance.
He couldn’t have come as far as he did if he wasn’t
Donald Trump, Mike Pence.
What a presidential team,
FOR America!
And mosques, by supporting Islam, are inherently political.
Having whipped sixteen,
Trump towers over Clinton,
Wins in November.
Thank you for your perspective...a good perspective.
Political genius on the part of LBJ. Muzzle the churches and let the Unions run wild.
The same reason libtards support gun control. They know it does not apply to them.
“Landslide Lyndon” was also a massive election fraud. Election fraud is also our main problem this year, too. We are headed for a disaster.
NOT bad, not bad at all!
Hey now, that's plagiarism, came from Independence Day movie /s
Nice!
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VERY good. I like it!
Shucks, I've been saying that all my life. And, I never did see the movie.
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