Obama’s Lawyer: Religious Institutions May Lose Tax-Exempt Status If Court Rules for Gay Marriage

National Review Online ^ | April 28, 2015 | Joel Gehrke

[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.”

[RetiredArmy]

Sadly the majority of churches and pastors today do not stand up or speak out about homo marriages. The only one that I have heard say a thing about it is Pastor Robert Jeffers of First Baptist Church of Dallas, Texas, who I saw on TV speak out against homo marriage in his sermon one Sunday afternoon when I watched his program, Pathway to Victory. Pastor Jeffers is the only one that I have heard say a thing. I know my pastor will not speak out against it. He is too mealy mouthed to do it. He lacks a spine on a lot of these issues. Doesn’t want to ruffle the waters. We have looked for another church but most around here are about as bad. A lot of us are thinking of starting a home church, like the first churches in the first century were. All churches back then were done in private homes. We are thinking of doing it ourselves because of the lack of a pastor who will stand up and do what the Bible tells him to do. Very sad. Many main stream denominations are afraid to do anything or say anything because they are afraid of losing the tax exempt status.

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[M Kehoe]

The IRS needs to go away.

5.56mm

[RnMomof7]

As my Pastor noted .....God turns the heart of the King where He will ....God is still on His throne and He is still in charge.. this is not a surprise to Him and no matter the decision it will give Him glory

[exnavy]

It will not be easy for the commie bast arts in this country.

[NorthMountain]

So when will there be any “push back” by those being persecuted?

I don't have a good answer to that. Push back comes in many forms ... some is happening now. Not enough, IMO, but tomorrow is another day.

[EQAndyBuzz]

"“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" And this statement alone is why the left wants to get rid of the second amendment.

[ilovesarah2012]

They should be able to say what they want anyway.

[VideoDoctor]

Socialism is idolatry.

"Amen" to that my friend.

Currently it appears we're barreling down the highway at a 100 plus miles an hour and NO ONE is asking WHERE are WE GOING???

[VideoDoctor]

This is where we are headed if nothing stops the avalanche that is happening right now.

Thew NEXT Chapter will be that the INTOLERANT MUSLIMS take over and anyone with a gay affliction will be BEHEADED.

The Lord works in mysterious ways. /s

[stylin_geek]

Those of us who know, and have warned, already know where we’re going. (that includes most of us on FR)

We’ve talked until we’re blue in the face and have given up trying to open the eyes of the willfully blind.

We’re now engaged in trying to get our own house in order and answer questions for those who are interested in setting their house in order.

[The_Media_never_lie]

What about Cair and those mosques?

Islam will get Barrack Hussein Obama exemption.

[windsorknot]

The Gaystapo is bound and determined to shove a bastardized version of marriage down our throats.

[The_Media_never_lie]

"“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" And this statement alone is why the left wants to get rid of the second amendment.

Thank you for posting this passage.

[VideoDoctor]

We’re now engaged in trying to get our own house in order

Be PREPARED. Very GOOD advice.

[SparkyBass]

Fascism never looked so good!

[darkangel82]

Justice Alito should’ve yelled and immediately found him in contempt for that argument.

[Chickensoup]

One things for sure, if this lawlessness continues unabated, the day will come when patriots are going to take a stand and demand a return to law and order

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No I don’t think it will happen.

[bestintxas]

It is worse than that: they will be jailed.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Yep