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I am no Constitutional Scholar unlike our Great Leader but giving a tax break for saying some mandated speech reeks of violating the First Amendment.
1 posted on 11/19/2014 11:01:47 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

There is a federal offense on the books called “denial of civil rights under color of law.” Sounds applicable to me.


2 posted on 11/19/2014 11:03:27 AM PST by Pecos (That government governs best which governs least.)
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Maryland is exempt from the Bill of Rights. You didn’t know that?


3 posted on 11/19/2014 11:03:55 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: C19fan

So, Maryland wants to dictate the content of sermons.


4 posted on 11/19/2014 11:05:06 AM PST by circlecity
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Since environmentalism is nothing more than a political money-making issue, this is a violation of the DNC’s “wall of separation”. Where the heck are the aclu goons?


5 posted on 11/19/2014 11:05:23 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer ('Provisional ballots'. When legal votes just aren't getting the job done. - The DemocRATS.)
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>> Now Prince George’s Country is offering a way for churches to avoid paying the tax

Here’s another idea for a church to avoid the tax: simply refuse to pay it.


6 posted on 11/19/2014 11:06:41 AM PST by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed is his demon)
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A REAL church will not preach Satan’s AGW lies.

If they do, run, run quickly out of that apostate Socialist “church”!


8 posted on 11/19/2014 11:08:34 AM PST by PATRIOT1876
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You have to fundamentally not understand Christianity to ask a church to preach about something that they may not believe in.

ie: asking them to lie.

We are just beginning to see all that happens when a population abandons religion, en masse.


9 posted on 11/19/2014 11:09:59 AM PST by Noamie
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What happend to the seperation of church and state. Churches are normally exempt from property taxes.


11 posted on 11/19/2014 11:16:02 AM PST by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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This is villainy to the point of being downright evil, as well as opening the door to other state dictates on churches.

Legally, it is clearly in violation of the separation of church and state to its original meaning.

This goes beyond their state to the point that national denominations should file lawsuit against the state over doing this. It is an unconscionable and unconstitutional act and should not be able to survive even a passing federal review.


12 posted on 11/19/2014 11:19:22 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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What do Rats care about freedom of speech? Ewen the lowest slave is free to agree with his master.


17 posted on 11/19/2014 11:27:11 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Good Muslims, like good Nazis or good liberals, are terrible human beings.)
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Big deal!

For many years, most churches in PG county have used sermons primarily to promote the demoncrat political ideology.

PG churches and schools == Community Organizers (ACORN lives)

18 posted on 11/19/2014 11:36:22 AM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: zot; GreyFriar

Ping.


20 posted on 11/19/2014 11:48:34 AM PST by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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How is this different from “solicicting prostitution”?


22 posted on 11/19/2014 11:52:18 AM PST by duffee (Dump the Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party, joe nosef.)
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Politics in the pulpit? That alone is illegal... or rather, churches will lose their tax exempt status.

Correct?


24 posted on 11/19/2014 11:59:35 AM PST by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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I have a funny feeling my church won’t play along.


27 posted on 11/19/2014 12:12:50 PM PST by cyclotic (Join America's premier outdoor adventure association for boys-traillifeusa.com)
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To: C19fan; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; Bigg Red; ...

I guess these churches can have Al Gore acolytes as their clergy.

Maryland “Freak State” PING!


29 posted on 11/19/2014 12:53:53 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The mods stole my tagline.)
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How appropriate.

Maybe finally these commie whackos will admit Green IS a religion.

I am sick to death of the EnviroMental religion.


30 posted on 11/19/2014 1:54:08 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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MD not respecting tax-exempt status for churches?

Never mind dictating what they ought to say?

Sounds way beyond liberalism. Perhaps national-socialism?


36 posted on 11/21/2014 9:41:51 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: C19fan

Bump


37 posted on 11/28/2014 9:21:59 AM PST by lowbridge
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