Posted on 06/28/2004 9:24:17 AM PDT by SlickWillard
Here's what's going down. Clinton, Gore and Kerry go to black churches the weekend before the election, get endorsed and get a lot of media. IRS does nothing. But when some conservative churches tell their flocks to vote pro-life, they get threats from liberals that their tax-exempt status will be pulled. Are you fine with that? Bill Thomas seems to be -- and Novak did a service by calling him on it.
Novak is dumping on Bill Thomas for a good reason. Conservative churches shouldn't be punished by the IRS for urging people to vote pro-life. After all, the IRS doesn't punish liberal black churches when they host Democratic candidates at their services. The bill that Thomas neutered would have protected conservative churches from retaliation. GOOD FOR NOVAK FOR POINTING OUT HOW THOMAS IS UNDERMINING CONSERVATISM AND HELPING CLINTON AND KERRY.
Novak has been trying to provoke a civil war among Republicans for years. He's a registered Democrat who gets to play the conservative on CNN.
Are you saying you favor the IRS should punishing conservative churches that urge their parishioners to vote for conservative candidates? Apparently Bill Thomas killed a bill that would have protected conservative church against such IRS abuse. (The IRS never punished liberal black churches for hosting Democratic candidates) GOOD FOR NOVAK FOR BRINGING THIS PROBLEM TO PEOPLE'S ATTENTION.
If Thomas neutered a bill that would have protected conservative churches from IRS abuse, then GOOD FOR NOVAK FOR LETTING US KNOW!!!
I don't disagree with that, but Novak's motive in doing so should be discussed as well. He wants Republicans to lose, which would end the slightest hope of stopping IRS abuse.
I didn't know that. He doesn't stick to reporting happy-happy news, that much is true.
Democrats use churches on a regular basis to get out the vote. It was nothing to see Hillary Clinton visit 3 churches per Sunday to gather support. Gore made himself available at many churches ( especially minority) and so did Slick Willy. The one Baltimore church he visited heard him tell the congregation that the GOP was going to try to block them at the polls and not allow them to vote. The
GOP candidate, Ellen Sauerbury (sp) was accused of racism a few days before the election. She did not have a racist bone in her body but the Democrats pulled it off and elected the Democrat gov. to another term. It was a dirty, nasty election full of inner city church race baiting. Watch for it this time around. I wish the GOP would take the
Democrats to the wall over the race baiting.
Houses of Worship Free Speech Restoration Act (Introduced in House)
HR 235 IH
108th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 235
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to protect the religious free exercise and free speech rights of churches and other houses of worship.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 8, 2003
Mr. JONES of North Carolina (for himself, Mr. DELAY, Mr. BLUNT, Mr. HAYES, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Mr. SOUDER, Mr. HALL, Mr. DEMINT, Mr. GUTKNECHT, Mr. KENNEDY of Minnesota, Mr. WELDON of Florida, Mr. PENCE, Ms. HART, and Mr. PITTS) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
H. R. 1547
http://thomas.loc.gov/
If not informed you should read the rest of this bill.
The net effect of your deconstruction is to compare apples with oranges.
The term Socialistic Darwinism is better used to describe individuals' actions, including elected individuals' actions.
The term is not as useful in the context of a description for a political selection process.
Bill Thomas is a scumbag?
Dump the p.o.s.
Thanks for the ping!
I agree with you.
2 points: As everybody already has stated, Novak is always looking for a "civil war" in the GOP,and why no mention of all the RAT electioneering that goes on in the black churches.
"Novak hasn't had a valid insight about Republican Party politics since about 1991. This article just confirms the above conclusion."
"Are you saying you favor the IRS should punishing conservative churches that urge their parishioners to vote for conservative candidates?"
No. I'm saying Novak hasn't had a valid insight since 1991.
I was talking to a Democrat co-worker the other day about the upcoming election. His comment (and he's decided after our discussion to NOT vote for Kerry, but instead look at either Nader or Cobb), "A trained monkey could do better than Bush." I immediately responded "And Kerry's not even that good."
Survival of the fittest is not the case in DC. It's survival of the slimiest.
Yeah right, we know you just pinged 'cause the title said "Civil War"
I prefer "War Between the States".
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