Posted on 06/28/2015 7:20:27 AM PDT by Texas Eagle
If Pastors want to be able to take a legal stand against government forced marriage, they must do these things!
1. Stop signing ANY marriage license, even at the State Level. Do you believe that Marriage is a covenant between an man, woman, and God? Then you have to act like it. Refusing to marry by any government sanction is the ONLY way you will defeat this mandate in court.
2. Relinquish your 501c3 status IMMEDIATELY. You don't need the IRS's approval to be tax exempt. That comes from the Constitution. Who is your provider anyway? Remember, you can't serve two masters!
3. Start teaching your congregation to be God dependent instead of government dependent. Teach your congregation to stop marrying by license for government benefits. Teach your congregation to stop tithing for government benefits. Remember: seek ye first the Kingdom of God...NOT government benefits.
4. Live by faith. Speak TRUTH. Stop being a slave to government and man. Learn to obey God NOT men. Acts 5:29">link.
If Pastors want to be able to take a legal stand against government forced marriage, they must do these things!
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Thought provoking. Do you think your Pastor is up to the challenge? Are you willing to tithe if there's no tax deduction to "benefit" from?
I agree with everything except #2. Why relinquish your 501(c)(3) status at this point?
It’s time for every Christian Church and every other churches to defy these people. Do not obey them. Fight them in the courts, in every way you can legally or illegally. Strangle the court system with every legal way. This cannot stand.
The Norwegian government took away from our local church the equivalent of our 501(c)(3) status and our giving actually went up.
I probably wouldn’t give it up until I had too but by then it might too late anyway.
Because the Const says Gov can make no law respecting an establishment of religion. Tax is a law. Thus its not necessary per the Const and allowing the Gov to Tax allows it to regulate.
I guess to beat government to the punch. And to show God you are placing your trust in Him, not government.
Here are some other very concrete things churches can do:
https://www.libertyinstitute.org/church-audits
As I read through the details of the links on the various documents, I was struck and saddened by the thought that if our pastor tried to do this, he would likely ignite a fire storm. There are a lot of ‘Casual Christians’ warming the church benches and they would have a big problem with the strict interpretation of the Bible as set forth in the documents. This is also why the homosexual/abortion ‘revolution’ has been successful.
I’m just wondering if having the 501(c)(3) status would actually help a religious organization in other potential legal disputes involving religious exemptions.
Excellent resource. Thank you. Am forwarding it to my Pastor.
Churches should immediately get out of the marriage license business. Church members can receive the sacrament of marrige in their church. I don’t see how the government can force a religion to bestow a sacrament of their religion on a couple that does comply with the laws of that religion.
Marriage licenses can be had for everybody at the city hall. Nobody, including churches, is preventing homo-sexuals from going to the city hall and getting a marriage license.
At the same time churches are not for rent as wedding chapels to whoever wanders in and decides to get married in one of them.
My opinion is screw the government and their “Tax Exemptions”. A church can easily become a zero profit business in a flash.
The IRS threat is an empty threat. Pastors can just tell the flock to use the ten percent they were giving for their own charity. No money, no tax.
Cease calling it marriage. Rename the ceremony God-bonding or, better yet, Levitical Union or something more eloquent but incorporating an inescapable reference to traditional marriage. Inventing a neologism allows one to define it. Define it as one man (cis-male if necessary) and one woman, (cis-female). Refuse all others.
Exactly.
The "LAW" is what 5 black robed political appointees say it is. Haven't you been paying attention?
Very good. Everything said is absolutely true and wisdom to heed.
someone should start a thread to gauge our nation's church body this first sunday of services...
Your suggestions speak to the physical aspects of the issue. It’s time for pastors to speak to the spiritual side and start teaching 1 Thess 4:1-8.
Our pastor didn’t mention it at all.
Actually the larger problem as I see it is if the church loses tax-exempt status on their operations, they would also lose tax exempt status on their properties. How many churches will bow a knee when the alternative is paying taxes on their properties at commercial property rates? I would guess a lot. This is mostly why I do not support the concept of a corporate church. We would be better off meeting in house churches, IMHO.
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