How are the church's constitutional rights being violated? Not that I like these guys, but there is no need for our side to whine to the government like this.
Are you serious? How can you not see how this churches rights are being violated? It's Free Speech vs. Hate Speech.
Read my comment on another site where I was accused of being homophobic:
I don't want to know whether they practice Sodomy or not. I could care less what they do in privacy. That's between them and God. I don't hate them but I won't ever condone it or consider it normal, healthy or natural. I don't condone adultery, or betrayal or anything else listed in the good book as sin either.
Individuals who don't like the message are free to leave and find a church where they hear what they want to hear. Secular Humanism rules in most churches today. There are plenty of them.
But this isn't about that, it's about "hate speech" vs. free speech and their attempt to use the system to silence us. It's about persecution if you say anything about the subject. We have every right to speak on any subject within the church. We also have the right to contain membership, tho most are welcome. These people aren't coming to church, they're SS agents.
They will haul any offender before the IRS and have the tax free status taken away. Then they'll sue under Hate Crime legislation to try to destroy the church. They're well funded, most churches can barely fix the leaky roof. That's their agenda.
Add to that another comment I had on last week's article about them monitoring white churches for political speech. I pointed out that black churches flagrantly violate their "separation of church and state." There's video on the news with candidates in black churches speaking and having funds collected, but if white churches even mention politics, they're hauled before the IRS. It's true. In 2000 I watched Al Gore and Jesse Jackson in TD Jake's church giving a political speech with a political collection plate following. I stopped watching TD Jakes, not because he was black but because of the blatant hypocracy.