Posted on 10/24/2019 6:03:17 PM PDT by marshmallow
October 22, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Over the weekend, Democrat presidential candidate Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke walked back his recent threat to eliminate tax-exempt status for churches that hold to a biblical understanding of marriage, but made clear that his stance was largely unchanged by interpreting the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as requiring churches to indulge homosexuality and gender confusion.
During a CNN town hall on LGBT issues earlier this month, the former Texas state representative answered “yes” to revoking the tax-exempt status of any religious institution that “oppose[s] same sex-marriage,” declaring that “there can be no reward, no benefit, no tax break for anyone ... that denies the full human rights and the full civil rights of every single one of us.”
The answer has since been repeatedly highlighted by Republicans and social conservatives, prompting O’Rourke during a Sunday appearance on MSNBC to address whether he stood by it.
“The answer to the direct question that you just asked is no,” O’Rourke said. “I see tremendous value in what religious institutions do in this country, not just for congregants and parishioners, but what they do in our communities...of course they should be able to do that work. And of course any one of us should be able to worship as we please, believe what we like.”
“But the moment that any nonprofit organization in this country offers services in the public sphere — higher education is a great example, or a health care clinic or hospital — then they must follow the laws of this country, including the law that prohibits discrimination based on any difference of race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation, which is the question that I was asked at that CNN town hall,” he continued. “That is a longstanding value, and certainly since 1964 and......
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This guy is gonna go down swinging isn’t he?
Like a prom date
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Or in case Mexican Bob prefers this version:
“El Congreso no promulgará ninguna ley que respete el establecimiento de una religión o prohíba el libre ejercicio de la misma; o restringir la libertad de expresión, o de prensa; o el derecho del pueblo a reunirse pacíficamente y a solicitar al Gobierno una reparación de agravios “.
PERIOD.
“>>>they must follow the laws of this country, including the law that prohibits discrimination based on any difference of race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation,”
He HAS to be working for Donald Trump
Beato. Take your skateboard and go off the edge of the Grand Canyon.
Nope.
Dude be nuttier than HRC HerOwnSelf.
Beto must be getting advice from Sheila Jackson Lee, that other outstanding Texas politician.
I have a demented dog who is smarter than Beto.
Hell yes, we’re going to take away your first amendment rights.
Poor Beto, the guy who fooled the Catholic Mexicans. Now they are turning against him. he wants their guns, now he wants their Church. Next Beto will want their first born to work in the factories.
Slavery, this is how it starts
Beto clearly has no ____ing idea what he’s talking about.
No, he is a human trial balloon, seeing what the next level of Progressivism the Globalists can implement next.
No, it doesn’t. We know this because Al Franken repeatedly tried to get bills passed to add transgenderism to the civil rights laws.
This guy....
If that term even applies to this d___less _ussy.
... and the First Amendment Act of 1789 says it doesn't ...
So there !!!
How does this idiot have any support at all?
Obviously he’s full of Tesla Batteries, but he does bring up an IMPORTANT POINT - which is that once ‘trophy legislation’ (as Bush Sr. used to call it) is passed, it can morph into ANYTHING, once the courts get to cut loose on it.
...an important lesson for our side, if we’re willing to learn anything, that is.
It’s that’s true he’s just struck down the Act as Unconstitutional
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