I just posted this in another thread. This is where it’s going .........
Liberals are going to try to force churches to treat all equally. They will threaten churches with their tax status.
If a church is required to marry homosexuals, why should they not be required to marry atheists, satan worshipers, etc.? Not many homosexual agenda folks are mentioning this but this is where it’s going.
This will destroy many churches in the USA. My rural church hardly makes it even with the current tax status.
This made me think of something. Your rural church is an exception to this, but there are too many churches in America. We have gone to Independent Baptist churches for about 14 years. There is another church almost exactly like mine 12 minutes away from my church, another one 20 minutes away, one 5 minutes from my house, and who knows how many others. In the city I’m from, I can quickly think of 8 Independent Baptist churches. They have the same doctrine, same polity, same service style, and most the staff went to the same bible college. My point is they could easily consolidate their efforts and do more for Christ.
It would almost be nice to be untethered from the government. It would allow preachers to say, “the Democrat Party is trait out of the pits of Hell!” And it would be true/biblical. They can’t say that now. They can talk about abortion, homosexuality, communism, rebellion against parents and authority, but they can’t name the organization that’s pushing these abominations on the country.
They should drop the tax status.
Having the exemption makes the church subservient to the federal government.
Liberals are going to try to force churches to treat all equally.
Until they start accepting parishioners who are divorced which they don’t then I think they can still say no to gays. Oh and get rid of all that tax break nonsense. That is one reason why they are in the mess they are in. The Government doesn’t do anything for free. Get churches out of the tax break business. That would help them a ton if they did that.