"This church used its resources to plan the event, gather the audience, provide a multimedia event and then petition its congregation, all in support of the discrimination amendment," said Karl Olson, chairman of the coalition.
Olson said churches that "engage in this type of activity" must file the appropriate paperwork with the state.
In addition to incurring fines, the church could be in danger of losing its nonprofit status with the IRS if it engages in political advocacy, he said."
I guess this is as good as any of a test of what churches may do regarding free speech and their tax exemptions. Just be glad its happening in Montana and not Massachusetts.
Homosexual Agenda Ping - Coming to a theater near you - HATESPEECH LAWS! The homosexual radicals (and how many disagree with these radicals?) want to shut up everyone who disagrees with their plans to turn the world into their own bath house.
Makes me very, very sick and angry. They can villify God, the Bible, Jesus Christ (remember some horrible play in which Jesus was portrayed as a homosexual?), Judaism and its tenets, and in Australia a couple of years ago they blasphemed Hinduism with disgusting porno pictures. All that is fine, just fine.
But for a church to say anything about homosexuality other than to have "gay marriages"? Can't have that.
These people are sick and dangerous and must be stopped.
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Huh?? "Fairness, "rights," "families," and parenthood"??
Yeah, right...
You know - the Second Amendment protects the First. Do we need a reminder? Open Christianity is now tolerated. That's the last step before persecution - first in the courts, then in the streets.
The church answers to a higher law! D**m fruit fairies!
sems to me to be an open-shut case of proper exercise of first amendment rights, and any case based on this complaint ought to be thrown out of court with a fine tacked on to the plaintiff
It works one way I suppose? If liberal churches support homosexuality it is OK?
Houses of Worship Political Speech Protection Act
Part of a church's duty is to guide and instruct its members to righteous participation in society, including political participation. They should not be taxed for doing their job.
1.) Is the church a 501(c)(3)? That would answer any questions.
2.) The church should claim that they are a black church, then no rules will apply.
With their recent successes they have become emboldened.
" As a man danced, so the drums were beaten for him" Achebe,
I wonder what THE REVEREND Jesse Jackson's thoughts on this are? Or maybe THE REVEREND Al Sharpton could answer it instead.
bttt
Meanwhile, if you are a Black Preacher in a Black Baptist Church, you can drag John F'n Kerry up to the pulpit, scream "Praise the Lord and Vote for this man" and pass the plate for his campaign, and NOTHING will ever happen to you.
Way to go, Montana!
And thus it starts . . . . .
Someone please tell me what the F**K a Commissioner of Political Practices is! Is this BS for real? Have we become the former Soviet Union? Have they mangaged to really defeat us from within as promised by using the educational systme (NEA)?
When I got married to my husband I was under the impression that what we were doing was a sacred thing...between him, me and my God....I thought it was a personal thing between me and the man I love. I thought I was entering into an institution ordained by God. It's sad to think that what I have believed for long, as something beautiful and something to be cherished and nurtured has now been brought down to some political issue....sleazed up by some people who want to pervert it into something that goes against the laws of nature...
God ordained marriage between a man and a woman right from the get go...it is a church doctrine...(a sacrament in the catholic church) a doctrine that must be defended.
If THE CHURCH cannot stand up for marriage..what's next? Maybe we will follow the ways of Canada and make it a hate crime to even read portions of scripture that denounce homosexuality...dark days are coming if we don't nip this thing in the bud.