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To: aceintx
I went to sleep in America and woke up in the Soviet Union!

Thr priniciple you seem to have missed is: a church that attends to its members' spiritual life is entitled to a tax exemption.

A church that takes up politics as an activity is not.

There's a difference between telling your flock what Jesus said to the moneylenders, to Pilate, or to the faithful at the Sermon on the Mount, and telling your flock what candidate Jesus would oppose.

I seem to recall some famous religious cat saying "My Kingdom is not of this World." If pastors want to take up the worldly burden, they can jolly well pay the worldly tax like the rest of us sinners.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

76 posted on 07/18/2006 5:52:11 PM PDT by Criminal Number 18F (America has no native criminal class, apart from Congress -- Mark Twain)
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To: Criminal Number 18F
”There's a difference between telling your flock what Jesus said to the moneylenders, to Pilate, or to the faithful at the Sermon on the Mount, and telling your flock what candidate Jesus would oppose (today).”


And what is that difference?

83 posted on 07/18/2006 6:12:08 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric cartman voice* “I love you guys”)
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To: Criminal Number 18F
It is rather funny that i am the only one defending the Church's freedom of speech rights when I don't even believe in god.
86 posted on 07/18/2006 6:16:41 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric cartman voice* “I love you guys”)
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