liberal churches have always been active politically, they are more about politics than religion anyways
I've always felt the best solution is for churches to renounce their tax-exempt status & say whatever they want.
With the shekels come the shackles.
The Baptists of America were pushing for a wall around the American government, not a wall around American Christianity.
This is a good article. Thank you.
This has always been a non-issue. The IRS has no power over churches that the churches don’t voluntarily give them.
[O]ur excellent Constitution…has not placed our religious rights under the power of any public functionary.
(Letter to the Methodist Episcopal Church (Jefferson Writings, Vol. XVI, p. 325, to the Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church on December 9, 1808)
“On every question of construction, carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed”
[Thomas Jefferson, memoir, Correspondence and Miscellanies From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson. (Boston: Gray & Bowan, 1830)
Indiduals have religious freedom and so do religious organizations.
As the leftists try to brainwash Christian/normal American children that bullying is disagreeing with their amoral dictates, teach your own children to stand up for all opinions expressed in school and to stand up to liberal homofascists and racists with their friends. They are not the sexual toys of adults who enjoy talking dirty to other people. Tell your kids adults are not supposed to talk dirty to them; their sexual feelings are personal and nto the government’s business. Public schools are government.
It worked for my sons and their friends and it will work for other parents, too. Parents need to intimidate the teachers for sexual harrassment and intolerance of religious freedom whenever they target and harass kids. In volume, they break and go back in their closets where they belong.
Keep documentation - letters to the file and participants of parent/teacher conferences. File law suits.
One black with an ZERO button on his shirt said to his wife that they need to find a better church. I felt like telling him to go to Rev Wrong's church in Chicago!
It brings to mind the amendment on the last election ballot in Missouri that make it illegal to restrict the practice of one’s religion at school. The Christians may benefit but it would probably never have happened if it wasn't for the Muslims.
The Rats didn't want the political top blown off of Rat church politicking.
Don’t celebrate yet... New information:
Has The IRS Given Up On Auditing Churches?
http://blog.speakupmovement.org/church/churches-and-politics/has-the-irs-given-up-on-auditing-churches/
“...Since that time, the IRS has not been auditing any churches to the best of our knowledge. It has proposed new regulations to designate a higher official in the ranks of the IRS to approve all church audits but it has never finalized those regulations. No one really knows what the delay is, but we believe that the IRS will finalize its regulations at some point and will once again begin auditing churches.”