[NYer]

Catholic Ping
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[<1/1,000,000th%]

It’s ok if they’re in black churches.

[Brad’s Gramma]

1001...I just sent to my favorite Pastor. I can guarantee he’ll join in.

[factoryrat]

The IRS is the best weapon that politicians have for destroying anyone who gets in their way. An army of nameless, faceless, bureaucrats can ruin and imprison anyone at the stroke of a pen, and the victims have no recourse. The power of taxation is the power to destroy, and there's plenty of interests who use it for just that purpose. That's why you see so much blowback from people who suggest we change the tax code to something more neutral. The ones who complain the most are the ones who stand to lose the most control.

[Psycho_Bunny]

If the government is going to force churches to fund abortions then f the governments rules about politics from the pulpit.

[Sequoyah101]

Let the insurrection begin. This is as good a place as any. If they prosecute dissolve and reform. A name doesn’t mean much.

Apparently this was not an issue at all until 1954:

http://www.speakupmovement.org/church/LearnMore/details/5252

The Johnson Amendment was passed by Congress in 1954 as an amendment to section 501(c)(3) of the federal tax code. The Johnson Amendment states that entities who are exempt from federal income tax cannot:

Participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distributing of statements), any political campaign on behalf of – or in opposition to – any candidate for public office.

http://www.firebuilders.org/JAmCEC.htm

In 1954, Johnson was facing re-election to the Senate and was being aggressively opposed by two non-profit anti-Communist groups that were attacking Johnson’s liberal agenda. In retaliation, Johnson inserted language into the IRS code that prohibited non-profits, including churches, from endorsing or opposing candidates for political office. In effect, Senator Johnson used the power of the go-along Congress and the IRS to silence his opposition. Unfortunately, it worked. Some in Johnson’s staff claimed that Johnson never intended to go after churches, only the two “nonprofits” in Texas. Nevertheless, his sly amendment to the tax code affected every church in America, and it is a violation of the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.

Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, Barak obastard ... the four most evil presidents in the history of the country.

[Mrs. Don-o]

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[Hebrews 11:6]

Come and get me, Copper!

[madison10]

Pastors: Join The Black Robed Regiment

[rawcatslyentist]

Paging Revs. Sharpdung, and Jackstoned.

The IRS has overlooked the Dhim slave quarters for too long to pretend to care anymore.

[Balding_Eagle]

bttt

[brightright]

Religious freedom? Separation of Church and State? ObamaCare forces employers to provide abortions to their employees. Romney forced Catholic Charities to stop providing adoptions in Mass. because they would have been required to do same sex adoptions. He tried to force Catholic Hospitals to perform abortions. San Francisco City Council and Board of Supervisors passed a resolution condemning the Catholic Church. These are examples of what is happening to religious freedoms.

[ColdSteelTalon]

Donations to your church are always tax deductible. Even if they are not 501C3...