"Those Christian colleges will be re-educated!!!"
Posted on 05/27/2015 11:39:02 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
There is much more at stake in the debate over same-sex marriage than wedding cakes. Namely, the tax-exempt status of universities is now at risk.
“The most notable exchange during the argument last month in the same-sex marriage case before the Supreme Court, Obergefell v. Hodges, likely occurred between Justice Samuel Alito and Solicitor General Donald Verrilli,” Terry Eastland writes in The Weekly Standard.
“Well, in the Bob Jones case,” Alito pointed out, “the Court held that a college was not entitled to tax-exempt status if it opposed interracial marriage or interracial dating.”
“In fact, as Alito and Verrilli of course know, what the Court held in Bob Jones was that the Internal Revenue Service acted within its authority in revoking the school’s tax-exempt status,” Eastland notes. Eastland is the executive editor of The Weekly Standard.
Back in the court, Alito asked Verrilli: “So would the same apply to a university or a college if it opposed same-sex marriage?” Eastland wrote, “That is, would the IRS be acting within its authority if it decided it could revoke the tax-exempt status of a school opposed to same-sex marriage?”
Verrilli’s answer: “You know, I—I don’t think I can answer that question without knowing more specifics, but it’s certainly going to be an issue. I—I don’t deny that. I don’t deny that, Justice Alito. It is—it is going to be an issue.”
Eastland observes, “What to make of that answer, which Verrilli has yet to clarify, and probably never will?” During the Reagan years, Eastland served as Director of Public Affairs for the Justice Department.
I see a HUGE battle ahead.
end the tax exemption on Harvard and Yale endowments
"Those Christian colleges will be re-educated!!!"
universities is one battle ... closely followed by churches. Government will deny tax exempt status to churches that do not tow the party line
Thou Shalt Not Defy The Gaystapo
Apples and oranges.
Practicing homosexuality is a choice.
A person’s race is not a choice.
IOW, being a black man or women is the same as being a gay man or woman.
Before you say, “Don’t be silly.” that’s exactly the argument the gay mafia is making: “Invidious discrimination against homosexuals is the same thing as such discrimination based on race.”
So let’s suppose someone likes to visit farm animals at night.
Or his religion allows, no requires him to have several wives or husbands.
Or child sex partners.
When does this BS stop? If it doesn’t, if they have their way their demands will only become more depraved.
Christian universities, then followed by other Christian para-church organizations (eg. high schools, campgrounds, social services). Churches will be last, but they will ultimately be a part of this crackdown. The Gaystapo will NOT allow dissent.
That only matters during this “debate” phase, before the government has announced it is changing policy. Once the government makes a decision that it is going to give a class special protections, it doesn’t matter what the nature of that class is anymore. You can argue it’s “different” till you are blue in the face, but they will still be just as protected under the law as all the other special classes.
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