Posted on 06/28/2015 9:13:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
This is right along the Soviet Union’s playbook.
Make the churches go underground, then assault them (with military force) when you discover them.
Remember how gay marriage wasn’t negatively going to affect normal people? Even when we didn’t believe them? /s
I expect the first gay couple to be turned away by a pastor/church will be filing a complaint by the end of this week. It will then take a few years to make it to the Supreme Court. The left just can’t afford for this issue to remain dormant. They need it to get votes.
Personally, I think what most people are going to find so disturbing about the ramifications of this "gay marriage" court decision is how quickly most religious organizations are going to capitulate in the face of no pressure at all and toe the political/cultural line on this issue.
The end result would be the exact opposite of "silencing" them, wouldn't it?
A taxpayer cannot put a charitable contribution to an organization that is not tax exempt on Schedule A.
The fact that they will pay any taxes at all just to speak their minds freely will be a FedMob version of a jizya tax.
And who would do that? Christians? How many Christians are there in America? The Episcopalians, the Methodists, the Lutherans, Joel Olsteens community "church." They've gone in support of homos. What kind of strength do you anticipate from the remaining "Christians?"
I have no idea what the answer to that question is. Various people have pushed for it for a long time. Under Obama, I think we have seen a variety of reasons why the IRS-centric tax system may be ripe for replacement.
In no way would I propose that the Fair Tax is an exclusively Christian issue. Many Christians are likely to oppose it. But perhaps some Christians will join the many other segments of society who have come to believe that a Fair Tax is a better way to raise revenue.
I say: the more the merrier.
Blame the Klan (anti-Catholic Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, D-KKK).
The Mythical "Wall of Separation": How a Misused Metaphor Changed ChurchState Law, Policy, and Discourse
By Daniel L. Dreisbach
Thanks SeekAndFind.
Yes that is correct. I am simply pointing out how any church could easily move around any potential problem.
It can't, unless the Church incorporates.
That's why dis-incorporation is the answer here. Churches ALL need to dis-incorporate to free themselves from the gay marriage ruling.
Then, when the government attacks, they ALL need to join together - THOUSANDS of churches - in a defense based on the statutory limits of corporate tax liability as defined in the IRC and pointed out, and even encouraged, by... whom? JOHN ROBERTS, that's who, three years ago.
THAT is how you fight back - you WIN. And that is also what Roberts is trying to Americans to do to save the country from tyranny.
Romans 1
Gods Wrath Against Sinful Humanity
18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world Gods invisible qualitieshis eternal power and divine naturehave been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creatorwho is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know Gods righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
If that happens, we will have officially sanctioned churches which kowtow to the Feds, and the real church will go underground, as it has in China.
...only in the huge churches.
Where is the outrage from the black church over gay marriage?
Excuse the rancor of the comment, but it seems that Republicans are the ones who gave us many of the communists on THIS court? Why would they wish to make changes? They enjoy the benefits these ‘esteemed men’ give them.
Excuse the rancor of the comment, but it seems that Republicans are the ones who gave us many of the communists on THIS court? Why would they wish to make changes? They enjoy the benefits these ‘esteemed men’ give them.
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