Posted on 10/15/2014 5:09:19 AM PDT by Patton@Bastogne
Look, you can type in as big a font as you want, but 26 USC 508 (c)(1)(A) specifically exempts “churches, their integrated auxiliaries, and conventions or associations of churches” from 501 (c)(3). 26 USC 7611 limits the circumstances under which the IRS may audit a church’s activities.
Homosexuality was classified as a mental illness for good reason. You are watching it play out in Houston.
I don’t think mayors have the right to prosecute anyone.
see my post 133
sorry ... post-113
Got it thanx
Book mark. Piss on obola and Mohamed.
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Not quite. The 1954 Johnson Amendment (legislated law) & the current IRS policy (crafted by bureaucrats) supposedly premised upon the 1954 Johnson Amendment are two different animals. As such the potential challenges are twofold (Constitutionality & Comportment with law it's supposedly premised upon) as evidenced when SCOTUS ruled 5-4 for Hobby Lobby in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby ruling that the mandated funding of contraception policy violated the Obamacare law it was supposedly premised upon
Regardless, I'm quite sure that the specific IRS policy has never been legally challenged and as such never made it to SCOTUS. In fact, the IRS has made a point of not enforcing or backing off each & every time a challenge seemed likely or possible & right now there are religious groups intentionally violating the policy & sending documentation of said violations to the IRS in hopes of being penalized & then having basis to mount a challenge. (see: Pulpit politics: Pastors endorse candidates, thumbing noses at the IRS
The IRS is all about intimidation with this policy and only those allowing themselves to be intimidated are being limited by the policy
That’s correct. Only liberals politicize everything.
You are wrong, sir.
The laws passed by Congress that established these IR regulations were and are violations of the 1st Amendment, which forbids Congress from passing any law that does what those laws, in effective, do.
We are not obligated to obey laws and regulations that are violations of the U. S. Constitution. In such cases, we should never wait for a USSC decision to take that stance. This particular case is such an obvious violation that it should not even be in question.
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Still, you are wrong. Your analogies do not fit the circumstances. The issue doesn’t concern taxes, even though fedgov has tried to make that the important thing.
Also, the drivers license issue has nothing to do with fedgov and Congress.
Exactly, not to mention has the lesbian mayor demanded the sermons from the 38 mosques in Houston? I think not. Keep your eye on the ball.
No the Houston mayor WON’T win....regardless of liberals and what they do...JESUS CHRIST WILL WIN!
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