Posted on 08/04/2014 9:18:02 PM PDT by chessplayer
It’s not just the Tea Party that the IRS is giving extra scrutiny too, it’s also checking into church sermons. According to Investors Business Daily the IRS agreed to an atheist group’s demands “to monitor sermons and homilies for proscribed speech that the foundation believes includes things like condemnation of gay marriage and criticism of ObamaCare for its contraceptive mandate.”
when they NEED to be investigating FED GRANTS to CHURCH ORGS FOR REFUGEE OPEN BORDERS ACTIVISM??????
Fascism is only an EO away.......
Shades of Big Brother.
ok, for example, Harvard university is non profit, are the professors lectures going to be monitored?
How about non-profit atheist organizations? Will the IRS check on them? After all—they want to impose their morality on the rest of it, but it’s okay because their morals are not based in religion.
/note:/Obama only sat in those pews for 20 years..
ANY distraction from the real problems.
Churches need to just pay the taxes, and we need to leave our tithes and offerings off of our tax returns and just pay the taxes.
I don’t believe politics can be separated from Christian doctrine, but what do I know?
Of course they’ll monitor Imams in the same manner? Anyway, it’s blatantly unconstitutional in any case. I was just curious about a religion which demands a political dominance as part of its basic tenants.
Making Lenin proud of what he started!
But not the black and muslim churches.....amirite?
Speaking of Big Brother, Michael Berry had a guest on today who said that the Houston Independent School District now has an app the students can add to their iPhone which would allow them to alert law enforcement if they see someone breaking a law.
So now everyone gets to use their Obama phone to play policeman.
I support 1A for churches but do not want to be forced to support lawyers for IA’s or other inducements to them. These “charities” are forcing me to violate my conscience.
The Black Robed Regiment was the name that the British placed on the courageous and patriotic American clergy during the Founding Era (a backhanded reference to the black robes they wore). Significantly, the British blamed the Black Regiment for American Independence, and rightfully so, for modern historians have documented that:
There is not a right asserted in the Declaration of Independence which had not been discussed by the New England clergy before 1763.
[Alice M. Baldwin, The New England Clergy and the American Revolution (New York: Frederick Ungar, 1958), p. 170.]
http://nationalblackroberegiment.com/original-black-robe-regiment/
They’d have to give up their 501(c)(3) status first.
Bye Bye to Obama’s favorite Church, the Reverend Wright’s “God Damn America Church.”
Acyually,they’ll say “oh, that was just the prophetic voice, not politics”
So?
What does 501(c)(3) get you but legal liability? Opening yourself up to government extortion and the like?
It limits political speech according to the IRS rules.
What exactly are the rules that churches must abide by to maintain their tax exempt status?
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