Dozens of pastors challenge IRS rules

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | September 26, 2009 | Bob Unruh

[Man50D]

Dozens of pastors around the nation are challenging an Internal Revenue Service rule that anti-Christian activists often invoke when they want to silence the message of churches, according to the Alliance Defense Fund

The organization has announced that more than 80 preachers are taking part in its second annual Pulpit Freedom Sunday this weekend.

The pastors will preach Sunday sermons related to biblical perspectives on the positions of electoral candidates or current government officials, exercising their constitutional right to free religious expression, the ADF said.

They will do so despite a "problematic" IRS rule that activists use when they want to silence the message of Christians, the ADF said.

"Pastors have a right to speak about biblical truths from the pulpit without fear of punishment. No one should be able to use the government to intimidate pastors into giving up their constitutional rights," ADF senior legal counsel Erik Stanley explained.

[Man50D]

The IRS has become an instrument of the federal government to stifle dissent and thwart the will of the people by violating the first Amendment. This increasingly Marxist suppression can stop by passing The Fair Tax Act(HR25/S296) that will replace all federal income taxes with a national sales tax and abolish the IRS.

[Man50D]

Fair Tax ping!

[John Leland 1789]

The unregistered [unincorporated and non-501(c)(3)] local church movement is growing in the USA.

1. American Coalition of Unregistered Churches
2. Unregistered Baptist Fellowship
3. Other unregistered local churches

Unregistered pastors don’t worry about what the Fed might think about what they say in the pulpit.

It is not against the law anywhere in the USA for a church to remain unincorporated and without an IRS copde on their foreheads or right hands.

True Christian churches will all eventually be both unregistered and underground, just as in China and Viet Nam.

[musicman]

BFLR

[RayChuang88]

In fact, the "tweaking" of the Internal Revenue Code (Title 26) by some 35,000 tax lobbyists is BY FAR the biggest form of corruption in the USA, no contest. This is one more reason why ditch the IRC in favor of FairTax, a taxation system that is so superior in many ways to the current income tax.

[flowerplough]

Obama Takes Ebenezer Church Pulpit
(Is the IRS is interested in silencing this style of church service?)

January 20, 2008

ABC News’ Sunlen Miller Reports: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., addressed the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia from a pulpit that he said was not just meaningful to the African American community, but to the entire world.

Obama, who is seeking his party’s presidential nomination, addressed the congregation of the famous church where Martin Luther King Sr. and Jr. were once pastors...

[free_life]

bump

[Always Right]

501(c)(3) is a tricky law. But it specifically exempts Churches from having to file to be exempt from taxes. So Churches can speak freely and still be exempt from taxes. I think 40 years ago, courts, Congress, and people still had some clue that Churches were automatically tax-exempt. Now I am not so sure. I think the government could tax churches out of business and very few people would complain. 501C)(3) rules are a bit murky, but there are specific exemptions for churches, although I don’t know how much longer that will last.

[MaxMax]

Actually the First Amendment only holds true politically in Black Churches like
Rev. Jeremiah Wright. All others best not apply to the double standard.
But then again, Obama has set the standard to test, so, By God, lets test it!