Star Traveler, we don’t have a government at all resembling the “system of government put into place by our Founding Fathers.”
The founders intended a government limited to specifically enumerated powers, but those limits are no longer recognized, resulting in a government able to exercise agendas, able to pick winners and losers in the economy, able to exercise social engineering, and able to dictate the terms of our lives.
Nowhere in the Constitution is there any allowance for the federal government to write laws directly applicable to the people of the several States, yet we have a slate of federal laws above and beyond State laws, with the federal government even giving itself permission to dictate the ‘care and maintenance’ of our bodies, and compel us into a contract not of our own choosing, in violation of freedom of association. “Rights” are now so corrupted as to be used as a sort of ‘demand license’ against our fellow citizens, and given force in this by the federal government itself, when those rights were solely recognized to prohibit any action by that federal government.
Those Founders intended the federal government to be prohibited from owning any lands within a State upon Statehood, as part of the Equal Footing Doctrine, and reiterated in Pollard Lessee vs Hagan. Yet we saw the federal government entirely to blame for the standoff with Cliven Bundy that came very close to bloodshed.
The presumption we are in any way operating by the terms of the Constitution at this time, has only allowed that government to presume its own legitimacy in extending its tyranny.
No, by this I am not suggesting we further discard, the Constitution, only that the denial of Tax Exempt status to Muslim organizations and Mosques is not constitutionally prohibited, particularly given the fact that these are all political organizations, even as indicated by Islam and the Quran.
You said ... “No, by this I am not suggesting we further discard, the Constitution, only that the denial of Tax Exempt status to Muslim organizations and Mosques is not constitutionally prohibited, particularly given the fact that these are all political organizations, even as indicated by Islam and the Quran.”
We don’t have the Constitution prior to 1789 ... but we do have the Constitution with the next 33 Constitutional Amendments attached, ten of which are the Bill of Rights, which gives that protection to any religious practices in the USA.
AND ... as I’ve stated above, the Mosques with the religious practices of those Muslims ... are FULLY PROTECTED, as any other organization with their own religious practices are protected.
What is NOT PROTECTED is the “combination of religion into the government, by laws and force” ... which is what the RADICAL ISLAMISTS in other countries in the world ARE DOING.
The Mosques, and the Muslims within, in this country, have agreed to have ONLY RELIGIOUS PRACTICES and NOT the RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORIST PRACTICES ... therefore they are in full compliance with US law and are fully protected by the U.S. Constitution, in the exact same way any other organization in the USA is with their religious practices.