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To: blue-duncan
And they can be taxed for :

Multiple vehicle gatherings
Use of a home as a religious facility
and so on.

As well as being shut down by home owners associations that want a special credit from the government in return for keeping hate speech and unapproved speech from fomenting hate within the association.

It's a complete fantasy to believe that taxing all those "bad churches" won't lead to taxing any religious expression not sanctioned by the "light bearers" running the government.

Ignore history and enjoy the illusion at your own risk.

83 posted on 05/20/2015 2:20:04 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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To: Rashputin; All

Is the USA the ONLY country in the world that does NOT tax churches?


114 posted on 05/20/2015 3:14:49 PM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Rashputin; blue-duncan; metmom
Multiple vehicle gatherings
Use of a home as a religious facility
and so on.


There is a law, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, RLUIPA, which is designed to protect religious land use, and it appears the recent case law on religious land use is trending very well for the home churches.  

As for logistical problems,  such as cars, neighborhood activity, etc., those can all be dealt with through any number of strategies, such as rotation of the location, spreading out the parking pattern, etc.  It's all about how badly do they want to do this.  

Think about it.  In China, where a person can be killed for having home church, they do it anyway.  Why?  Because no matter how bad things get, we as believers are supposed to be in fellowship with one another.  We have to obey God, even when the wicked rules of man would interfere.  This is just an ordinary part of being Christian.  But as we do this, no reason we can't be savvy about it.  Wise as serpents, harmless as doves.

As for home owners associations, that's a contract you enter into.  If you don't like the terms of the contract, either try to get a better contract, or just don't live there. Problem solved.

Peace,

SR
123 posted on 05/20/2015 3:25:32 PM PDT by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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