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Beto: Religious Institutions Should Lose Tax-Exempt Status for Same-Sex Marriage Opposition
The Washington Free Beacon ^ | October 11, 2019 | Graham Piro

Posted on 10/11/2019 7:48:02 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

'We are going to stop those who are infringing upon the human rights of our fellow Americans'

Presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke (D., Texas) said he would strip religious institutions of their tax exempt status if they oppose same-sex marriage.

"We are going to stop those who are infringing upon the human rights of our fellow Americans," the former congressman said during CNN's Equality Town Hall on Thursday.

CNN host Don Lemon pressed O'Rourke on the particulars of his plan for LGBT Americans.

"Do you think religious institutions like colleges, churches, charities, should they lose their tax exempt status if they oppose same sex marriage?" Lemon asked. O'Rourke answered with an unequivocal yes, and stressed that as president, he would make punishing religious organizations a priority.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics; Religion
KEYWORDS: beto; bobblehead; gay; homosexualagenda; marriage; texas
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Homosexual acts should have always remained unlawful. We wouldn’t have to contend with these perverts running amuck if that had remained true.


21 posted on 10/11/2019 7:56:56 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What a d###

I thought he was a buffoon at first.

then an idiot for destroying his chances in any election in Texas

Now i just hate him


22 posted on 10/11/2019 7:58:11 AM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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To: FlipWilson

“And I had a liberal today arguing to me that Trump was punching holes in the Constitution.”

At least he still has bits he wants. The Left is opposed to it lock, stock and barrel.


23 posted on 10/11/2019 7:58:44 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Drango

Not exactly sure what that means. ..

But you have__ butt and plug. ..therefore I know, like. smuckers, it has to be good.


24 posted on 10/11/2019 8:00:45 AM PDT by redshawk (Willie's Whore was bused......oh my...lying pig)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Democrat politicians should lose all of their personal income tax deductions for pandering to their far left-wing base.


25 posted on 10/11/2019 8:01:56 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation has ended!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What about hadji and his favorite mosque?
Idiot.


26 posted on 10/11/2019 8:02:25 AM PDT by vpintheak (Stop making stupid people famous!)
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To: JPJones

> Wouldn’t that mean that all mosques, all of islam, lose their tax exempt status? <

Well, I did find it interesting that Lemon did not mention mosques (see below). And I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if the left exempted mosques because of “cultural differences.”

“Do you think religious institutions like colleges, churches, charities, should they lose their tax exempt status if they oppose same sex marriage?” Lemon asked.


27 posted on 10/11/2019 8:03:20 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
What an absolutely weird place to draw a line. Because of a terrible Supreme Court decision that is unlikely to ever be reversed, same-sex marriage is a dead issue as a matter of policy. You can be opposed to it until the cows come home, but that isn't going to infringe one bit on the newly-established constitutional right of gays to prance down to the courthouse to get married. So why make it an issue?

The only rational answer to that is if Beto believed that churches themselves should be compelled to perform same-sex marriages, but that's not actually what he's saying.

So he's left making a stupid argument about something that doesn't matter. It's just blatant pandering to gays, but it's stupid pandering.

Beto is just a really, really strange guy guy.

28 posted on 10/11/2019 8:06:02 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Make no mistake here, this is the clear path of the Democrat Party tyrants.

They want everyone, under the heavy boot of the government’s power, to conform to their way of thinking. This is no different than any other totalitarian dictator that has ever walked the planet and murdered millions of their own people.

It is why Democrats booed God three times. It is why Democrats want to take our guns. It is why Democrats are pining to use force to stop any possible means of dissent from their religious ideology.


29 posted on 10/11/2019 8:07:20 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: escapefromboston
isn’t he polling at 2% ? Why even bother interviewing him at all.

Because within two years this will be a main plank of the Democrat Party platform.

They are 100% serious about this.

30 posted on 10/11/2019 8:08:40 AM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: null and void

Moslems. This is why it will never happen.


31 posted on 10/11/2019 8:09:28 AM PDT by BigEdLB (BigEdLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Overton window.


32 posted on 10/11/2019 8:10:04 AM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Justice Of The Peace....Civilly they can be married, but a religious ceremony or a lack thereof isn’t a civil rights violation.


33 posted on 10/11/2019 8:10:09 AM PDT by Retgearjammer
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To: red-dawg
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."

He must have scored very low on reading comprehension. Of course, that clause was written by long-dead white males in some sort of strange language they used back then. It IS rather hard to understand, isn't it?

34 posted on 10/11/2019 8:12:01 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I have a bad feeling he’ll be Elizabeth Warren’s running mate.

A bad feeling?? Hell, that would ensure a Trump victory! Go for it!

35 posted on 10/11/2019 8:12:05 AM PDT by mc5cents
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Fake Indian and the Fake Mexican.


36 posted on 10/11/2019 8:14:20 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: escapefromboston

Bozo never had a chance at the democrat nomination because he is a privileged rich white male married to a woman. The fact that he is a far left-wing nut was actually the only thing he had going for him.

He is now running for Pocahontas Warren’s VP slot. He has a chance at it because together the would cover most of the democrat identity politics groups. But to guarantee the job, he may have to dump his wife and have a homosexual affair with Buttigieg.


37 posted on 10/11/2019 8:15:09 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation has ended!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Freedom of religion and conscience is the most fundamental human right.


38 posted on 10/11/2019 8:16:04 AM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

this will get him a lot of votes...


39 posted on 10/11/2019 8:16:10 AM PDT by Agatsu77
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I have a bad feeling he’ll be Elizabeth Warren’s running mate.

He's no threat; Warren will likely look to a prominent black for a running mate.

40 posted on 10/11/2019 8:16:50 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Every liberal should be red-flagged.)
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