Posted on 10/15/2019 4:24:04 PM PDT by Faith Presses On
The issue of gay rights and recognition and acceptance of the LGBTQ community has moved at warp speed—in political terms anyway—this past decade.
“I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage,” said the candidate Barack Obama in 2008.
At Thursday night’s nationally televised forum on LGBTQ rights, candidate Beto O’Rourke showed how far, and how quickly, the Democratic Party has moved. The former Texas congressman caused quite a stir when he said he would support revoking the tax-exempt status of religious institutions—colleges, churches, and charities—if they opposed same-sex marriage.
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The candidate’s view isn’t entirely new to Democrats. It echoes, for example, then–Solicitor General Donald Verrilli’s concession during his oral argument in Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015 that the tax-exempt status of Christian colleges and universities who hold traditional views of marriage was “going to be an issue.” And it aligns with the Harvard law professor Mark Tushnet’s policy recommendation to take a “hard line” with religious conservatives because, after all, “trying to be nice to the losers didn’t work well after the Civil War,” and “taking a hard line seemed to work reasonably well in Germany and Japan after 1945.”
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95% of Democrats are ATHEISTS!
IF the tax exemption is removed then I expect the churches to start getting the people involved. You know like black churches who support dims are allowed today.
I think that's true, and what more, have lost their fear of admitting it.
And what about the support of the sainted Muslims? Last I checked they were lukewarm about all this gay marriage stuff.
I heard the comment the other day, that the Dems plan to target black churches as well as traditional churches this endeavor of theirs.
Just returned from a trip to Connecticut where we lived for 25 years. A church we used to attend now has a Fag Flag on its church sign because of one lesbian.
Amazing that an entire congregation would throw away their eternal salvation to please one angry, loudmouth lesbian.
Regret? That's adorable. The only thing that comes close to regret is, oh no, we lost the election.
My feeling is drop the tax deduction and take meaningful social justice straight to the pulpit.
Put up or shut up.
Black churches will be penalized. Don’t they know black lives matter?
Beto is is a nightmare, regretfully he is not only American but he is from TEXAS!. He speaks like he is from another country...he is a loony tune!
This essentially reflects the Democrat desire to make churches a government entity, a state religion as it were.
Which is what’s ironic considering the Liberals are the ones always claiming the separation of church and state which does not exist in the Constitution
In the cities they are but what about the small towns and the country. This will not help the Democrats.
Maybe political folk...but there are many regular Dim folk...that go to church...and vote dim..because they are uninformed.
Every Democrat is a violent totalitarian thug.
Apparently Pinto Bean O'Rourke no comprende that the majority of Hispanics.....even the illegals whose votes the democraps are pandering to are very religious and don't support the alphabet soupers.
Will Beto support ending tax-exempt status for mosques too?
Doubtful. I’ve been waiting for decades for Demos to regret anything.
Any Christian that votes for a Democrat is a moron.
Christians will be made the first target for blame and persecution if the Democrats get back in power.
Beta only said out loud what all of them believe.
The Democrat Party is controlled by Satan—they repudiated God publicly at their 2012 national convention.
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