Posted on 06/30/2015 2:56:09 AM PDT by markomalley
Federal involvement seems to be the exploited niche of the motivated Left. For it is the tax code and the special tax treatments carved into the most complicated compilation in the Western World that affords the activists their openings.
The gay marriage issue was essentially an equal treatment issue regarding Social Security benefits of surviving spouses, estate taxes, and joint tax returns. All the emotional scenery was fluff. It was about money and how the federal government, based on marital status, taxes some people one way and others another.
Next apparently on the docket are the churches. The same thread will be pulled on this one, tax treatment. The Left will push for the reasoning, perhaps from the Supreme Court, why churches have tax-exempt status. The SCOTUS will be up against the same type of equal treatment arguments. A majority of them may welcome the issue.
Add in the possibility of churches sticking to their beliefs on marriage and losing their tax-exempt status. The Federal government has tremendous power over the survival of the church or other houses of worship and just as in denying federal funds to states that do not “jump through the federal hoop” the tax status rug could get pulled.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Even a half-@ssed CPA could set up a church as a for-profit corporation that generates $0 in income. I’m not even a CPA myself, but if you make it worth my while I can probably get half your congregation qualified for Social Security disability payments, most of the families qualified for food stamps and free school lunches, and most of the neighborhood within half a mile of your “church corporation” established as subsidized Section 8 housing for the members of your church.
So, in other words, none of them (at least around where I live).
Read the New Testament. Read Matthew 10:14-15 in particular. The admonition from Christ Himself was stark ... even frightening, in fact:
Out of context. This was when Jesus commissioned the 12 to evangelize, not for an area where the Church was already established.
Now there is a pertinent passage: Gen 19:12ff.
“But, then again, the courts seem less and less obligated to the Constitution.”
That’s a fact.
Children no longer have the right to be raised by their natural parents.
Yes, they've opened a Pandora's box.
But they're smarter than us. Their teachers have told them so.
:>)
Someone said yesterday on one of the news channels, and it could have been Hume, that the ruling on ObamaCare was awful, but ObamaCare itself is awful. That it is poorly written, poorly crafted, poorly funded, destined to drive rates through the roof, and destined to collapse under its own weight if it isn’t set aside. In that collapse, it will drag the economy into a depression or recession.
I don’t know if that’s a silver lining, but you highlight again, the possible unintended consequences of stupid government decisions.
Good ideas, btw. Worth thinking about.
No it wasn't. That is just the ruse they used to get their foot in the door.
It was always about attacking and destroying the church. The mere existence of the church reminds the faggots on a daily basis that they are going to hell for their chosen actions. The perverts and their supporters just can't stand that reminder. Rather than heed what their consciences and the church and the Spirit tells them, they'd rather attack the church and try to silence any voice that speaks the truth.
Any church that relies on its tax-exempt status for its survival probably isn’t much of a church to begin with.
OK, now read the part of the article where it talks about destroying the teaching arm of the churches, the parochial schools...which is only about 80% of the article’s content...
It has never worked that way, and it never will.
Oh of course...silly us...thinking that all the Christian affiliated schools and hospitals and charities throughout history ever successfully fulfilled their missions...
It was all just one big satanic lie...glad you set us straight on that...
Almost certainly the case.
Early Christians didn't have churches at all. They converted the Roman Empire just the same.
All churches exist on donations, they will all take a hit if that goes away. Not only will the donators get taxed, but the church as well. A double tax, so to speak for the evil liberals to waste on their pet projects. They are gleefully rubbing their greedy hands together at the thought.
You act as if Maryland has already been evangelized. I would beg to differ with that, especially in light of: (1) the voting patterns of alleged “Christians” in that state, and (2) your statement that “none of them (towns)” have enough responsible, upright citizens who value religious freedom.
A voucher system for schooling wouldn't be "a boon for parochial schools across the nation" at all. If anything, it would hasten their demise the same way taxpayer-funded student aid and student loan guarantees have destroyed most Catholic universities. Any school participating in a voucher would have to meet standards established by the government, and you can be sure that any religious/moral proscriptions against sodomy would have to be tossed aside as a condition for participating in a voucher program.
This is why I have never been much of a supporter of vouchers for religious schools.
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