as nice as it sounds, I doubt it’ll make a difference in most churches anyhow.
It’s not illegal to speak out against abortion or homosexuality in church right now. When is the last time you’ve heard a sermon against either of these in any church?
If churches succeed in getting the law changed, it will also apply to Planned Parenthood, anti-gun groups, all the Soros groups, Greenpeace, and all the rest.
Planned Parenthood is a 501c3 and endorsed Clinton for President. Now why can they do that and churches can’t? Hmmmmm.....
Ah, so this is why the Left encouraged James to shoot Scalise. Democrats have been using Churches to campaign for years, specifically Black Churches using the Blacks for their political gains, hoping that no one would dare challenge them. Now every other Church wants the same privilege to be able to do this. Was James paid to do this? That is the real question. Maybe he didn’t act alone
The absurd notion that the Federal Government, or any of its agencies, can control and adjudicate the speech of a Constitionally protected institution in its normal procedures is itself a uniquely nasty form of tyranny.
Back in my kumbaya days, I was attending a service at All Saints Episcopal in Pasadena when the old adulterer Jesse Jackson hisself paraded down the aisle with the rest of the robed procession and most of congregation swooning like love stuck teens. Being the “ordained minister” he claimed to be, he was able to give his race baiting “sermon” from the pulpit.
I’m ashamed to say that I didn’t get up and leave then. Though it didn’t take long before challenging their leftist theology that I was “invited” (blackballed) to depart their midst.
‘There endeth that lesson.’
Now that the LGBLTXYZ movement has taken over the churches what difference does it make?
Churches do not need a 501c3 as the states that they incorporate in determine their nonprofit status. The IRS regulations already codify churches as exempt from taxes. All the 501c3 does for churches is allow them to provide a year-end statement to their donors for tax purposes. If the church dropped their 501c3, it would mean their donors would have to keep their own records and provide proof of thei donations. I can’t believe how many churches have fallen for this stupidity as well as the costs involved in getting one.
So repeal the Johnson Amendment and George Soros goes to a compliant synagogue and gives them $500 million to establish a PAC to support candidates and causes he chooses. So what, you may say. He does that anyhow. Ah, but now that $500 million is deductible contribution to a charitable organization.