[HostileTerritory]

Robert H. Knight, director of the Culture and Family Institute at Concerned Women for America, predicted that homosexuals would try to chip away at the tax-exempt status of churches that reject same-sex relationships.

No one is that politically brain-dead. This is a nice talking point if we want to win over people in the middle, but it's not going to ever happen.

[Spok]

"I don't think people will stop until the whole sacred institution of marriage crumbles."

This is the REAL objective of gay marriage.

[Unam Sanctam]

Other faiths, including the Roman Catholics and Southern Baptists, aren't likely to change their ways anytime soon, he said.

Here's hoping, but the Episcopal abandonment of Christian sexual morality is not an encouraging sign.

"Churches, quite clearly, have the right to marry or not marry whoever they please," Volokh said. "Maybe somebody could sue them for discrimination in marriage, but the churches will certainly win."

Let's hope the Constitutional protections on freedom of religion and speech and association will last through a generation at least of agenda-driven leftist judges.

[Esther Ruth]

Maybe some of you :) out there have seen the movie "Judgement" with the man from L.A. Law, I can't think of his name, but in the movie, he finds a way to turn the trial around for quicker resolve and a way also to protect Helen Hannah, guilty of being a Hater. He decides that the trial is really about God, and we should put Him, put God on trial and His Word. This keeps going through my mind. As Christians this is our foundation and our authority. Our authority is in God and His Word, the Bible. Maybe we should make that the issue. Put those in opposition to our Godly heritage, our tradition of Godly ways to govern ourselves -- put them, who oppose it, and are trying to deconstruct it, on the defense. Make them have to defend what they believe by proving that what God says and the Bible says is wrong.

[17th Miss Regt]

"If political correctness wins the struggle for hearts and minds," Land said, "then you may see tremendous pressure to take away the tax-exempt status of churches and denominations and organizations that refuse to fully affirm and accept the homosexual lifestyle."

That sword is definitely two-edged! If the tax-exempt status of a church is taken away, that church no longer has to stay out of politics. A priest or pastor could then advocate for candidates and urge the congregation to vote one way or the other with no fear of reprisal.

[fso301]

More of the Clinton legacy.

[Chewbacca]

You know, the government could get a lot of revenue if it removed the tax exempt status of all churches and charity groups.

[Cronos]

Other faiths, including the Roman Catholics and Southern Baptists, aren't likely to change their ways anytime soon, he said.

Maybe when lucifer complains of frost-bite.

[Cronos]

NEWSFLASH: Woman marries dog in EpissCopalian building.

[Qwinn]

"Religion has thrived in America because we have freedom of religion," she said. "The government should never be allowed to interfere in the church unless they have some compelling state interest."

Notice the qualifier at the end? Ah, the language of tyrants. Funny how they'll always reserve it, and redefine "compelling state interest" when it suits them.

Qwinn