Posted on 08/05/2014 6:12:00 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Is the Internal Revenue Service a threat to religious liberty?
As the IRS continues to come under well-aimed fire for harassing conservative groups, on Friday it secured a final court order formalizing what amounts to a secret agreement to monitor the pulpits of ill-favored churches. The serious danger, as former Justice Department attorney J. Christian Adams told Fox News, is that the IRS will start treating “theology as politics,” and regulate it accordingly.
Lovers of liberty should be very concerned.
According to a June 27 IRS letter to the Justice Department, 99 churches merit “high priority examination” for allegedly illegal electioneering activities. The letter was sent in reference to a now-dismissed lawsuit filed by the atheist group known as the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF). The suit originally was a rather broad one, demanding not only that the IRS enforce prohibitions against churches’ endorsing candidates specifically, but also that churches should be “required to file” what it described as “detailed annual information” that would force them (if they are like other nonprofits) to “expend substantial time and resources.”
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Advance warning to any churches that preach from pulpits about unhealthy same sex relationships.
Wonder it Trinity United in Chicago is one of them..../sarc
Is this horse**** even legal? The IRS acting as some kind of atheist Gestapo?
The IRS is a threat to liberty. Period.
Democrats need not apply!
Wow, they're FINALLY getting after a handful of churches in Chicago!
/sarc
“Is the Internal Revenue Service a threat to religious liberty?”
Great question. Here’s another one:
Can 70 IQ IRS fat slob bureaucrats march onto a battlefield and fight?
This is actually a perfect setup to challenge the IRS in court and take it to the top.
current fedgov is a threat to religious liberties as well as personal freedom in general. has been for awhile.
“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”
- Ayn Rand
Bring it. If they want to make it personal we can make it very personal.
Johnson(?) issued an executive order. It has never been challenged in court.
The churches should stand their ground and say see you in court.
Don’t muzzle my minister!
Watching a Kennedy documentary. Martin Luther King, Sr endorsed first Nixon and then swithched to Kennedy. But, of course, this was prior to Johnson’s EO.
It’s written in the Bible and in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Is the IRS going to ban books too? Freedom of speech folks. And as far as I’m concerned the gov’t has no right to tax churches at all.. separation of church and state.
I’m guessing the libs who shout “Separation of church and state!” from the rooftops any time there’s a graduation prayer will be just fine with this.
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