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Obama’s Lawyer: Religious Institutions May Lose Tax-Exempt Status If Court Rules for Gay Marriage
National Review Online ^ | April 28, 2015 | Joel Gehrke

Posted on 04/28/2015 12:21:30 PM PDT by C19fan

Religious institutions could be at risk of losing their tax-exempt status due to their beliefs about marriage if the Supreme Court holds that gay couples have a constitutional right to wed, President Obama’s attorney acknowledged to the Supreme Court today. “It’s certainly going to be an issue,” Solicitor General Donald Verrilli replied when Justice Samuel Alito asked if schools that support the traditional definition of marriage would have to be treated like schools that once opposed interracial marriage. “I don’t deny that.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: gay; homosexualagenda; indiana; marriage; mikepence; religious; rfra; scotus; ssm
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Rod Dreher's Law of Merited Impossibilility, "It’s a complete absurdity to believe that Christians will suffer a single thing from the expansion of gay rights, and boy, do they deserve what they’re going to get.”

Not a question of if but when the state will go after the tax exempt status of religious based institutions.

1 posted on 04/28/2015 12:21:30 PM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

What about Cair and those mosques ?


2 posted on 04/28/2015 12:22:32 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: C19fan

Fine....then preachers can say what they want.


3 posted on 04/28/2015 12:23:10 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: C19fan
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

4 posted on 04/28/2015 12:23:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: ealgeone

Unfortunately a lot of preachers and institutions will close if they lose tax exempt status.


5 posted on 04/28/2015 12:24:12 PM PDT by C19fan
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“Well”, he continued, “churches that don’t support democrats, that is”.


6 posted on 04/28/2015 12:25:13 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: C19fan

Oh my, the reach of Chicago-style politics is really breathtaking, isn’t it?


7 posted on 04/28/2015 12:25:55 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("Keeping your stick down used to be a commandment, but not anymore" Harry Sinden, 1988)
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From tolerance to acceptance to forced indoctrination...


8 posted on 04/28/2015 12:25:59 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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Unfortunately a lot of preachers and institutions will close if they lose tax exempt status.

Then we'll find out who is for Christ and who is for the $$.

9 posted on 04/28/2015 12:26:29 PM PDT by ealgeone
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3283599/posts


10 posted on 04/28/2015 12:26:32 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Fine by me, I never liked how the tax exempt status was used to mussel the churches and keep them from inserting themselves into the public discourse.


11 posted on 04/28/2015 12:26:37 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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To: ealgeone

They already can.
They just have to pay tax on that portion of their time that they spent on non-exempt activity.

So, if he spends 40 hours a week on church activity and a total of one hour per week on non-exempt prep and presentation,
then 1/40th of their “income” would be taxable.


12 posted on 04/28/2015 12:27:02 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: al baby

Evidently, Obama’s lawyer needs to reread the First Amendment:

“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.”

Under the First Amendment, churches are not subject to taxation anyway. Unfortunately, churches made a deal with the devil when they accepted 501(c)(3) status with the IRS.


13 posted on 04/28/2015 12:28:08 PM PDT by stylin_geek (Never underestimate the power of government to distort markets)
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I think that’s their goal, to completely destroy religious institutions.


14 posted on 04/28/2015 12:28:42 PM PDT by conservativejoy (We Can Elect Ted Cruz! Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God!)
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To: stylin_geek

Churches might protected but not affiliated charities, educational institutions, etc.


15 posted on 04/28/2015 12:29:05 PM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

We should bring back poll taxes too.


16 posted on 04/28/2015 12:29:52 PM PDT by I got the rope
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This isn’t really about sodomites.

This is about The Revolution. It’s about replacing Christian culture with socialist culture. It’s about dethroning King Jesus, and enforcing the worship of the Almighty State.

Socialism is idolatry.


17 posted on 04/28/2015 12:31:39 PM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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That very well persuade Kennedy to vote against the Court legalizing gay marriage across the board but vote that states must “recognize” the validity of marriages performed in states that allow it.


18 posted on 04/28/2015 12:33:05 PM PDT by allendale
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Do you really think it will stop at the revocation of tax exempt status? Next up? Jail time for those who preach against it.


19 posted on 04/28/2015 12:35:04 PM PDT by tenger (May you live in interesting times. - Chinese curse)
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To: stylin_geek

That was my thought as well. Using some non-sense based fictionally on the 14th to stomp all over the very clear language of the 1st.


20 posted on 04/28/2015 12:35:48 PM PDT by Nateman (If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
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