Posted on 07/24/2004 6:24:55 AM PDT by take
Clinton looks like he is saying. Hee Hee, Well here I am in your house....I don't see a bolt of lightening coming.
Well .. we don't have x42 enforcers anymore. If the IRS starts investigating speeches of people in churches, the dems are going to get caught too. Doesn't the IRS report to Treasury ..??
The dems still have not learned .. when they accuse the repubs of doing stuff .. it generally means the dems have already been doing it.
So far .. the dems record of investigating the repubs has ended up hitting the dems in the face.
....Jesse and Al should be first on the list of those investigated. The are anything but Reverend.
What a crock of hooey!
No one was forced to attend that church. They are there by choice and they can leave by choice.
If that pastor was inspired to speak positive words about Pres. Bush, then it is a religious issue, and the state should butt out.
Not only does Governmental/IRS involvement violate that pastor's freedom of speech, but it also violates his freedom of religion. He can believe that J F'n Kerry is the reincarnation of PT Barnum if he wants to.
Folks who disagree can vote with their feet and not return to that church.
After all...it is a free nation with freedom of religion.
BTTT
Good job! Please let us know if you hear back from them.
REV. Al Sharpton will go to three different churches in Boston tomorrow to preach to three black congregations urging them to vote Democratic . . .
Same old Dem hypocrisy.
"American democracy is rooted in the principle of the separation of church and state," the Democratic committee's statement said. "The Washington County Democratic Party remains committed to maintaining this value and belief if only in our small corner of the state."
It will be a small corner......because the first amendment has become so misconstrued under these types.
A state sponsored religion is one that dictates that you have to be Roman Catholic, or Baptist, or whatever.
It never called for the abolition of religion in political spheres.
Oh I agree God is merciful, however in this case I am not.
I cannot even conceive of going into a church to find a way to condemn it. Maybe some will wake up if the message is full of God's glory. This is why I am not God.
I think America is headed for another yoke of slavery to throw off; the yoke that people like Barry Lynn, the ACLU, and the Democrat party would love to throw around your neck.
Beautiful.
Boy, my thoughts exactly.
Learn More About Rights of Churches & Pastors to Speak-Out During Political Season
The article (a 13 page pdf file) is entitled "Permissible and Impermissible Activities of Non-Profit Organizations and Public Charities Under Federal Campaign Finance and Tax Laws"
(URL - http://www.aclj.org/resources/politicalspeech/040317_fed_campaign_finance.pdf )
Yeah, I know. As I was typing I even asked myself if such an animal existed.
OMG, my pastor had better be looking over his shulder. On Mothers Day he commented that one of the hpeople he admired most in the world was nancy Reagan because of the way she stood by her ailing husband. The Feds will be coming...
shulder = shoulder
And furthermore, he wrote a letter to the parish saying that it was our obligation as Christians to study the issues and the candidates and vote accordingly. Scandal!
He went on to say that religion is not to be viewed as a virus loose in the nation, but as a vitamin building up the nation.
It's time for the ladies Aid to start baking cakes with files inside, I'm sure.
< /sarcasm >
What a dope Barry Lynn is.
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