Posted on 06/30/2015 10:40:19 AM PDT by raptor22
Lost in the celebrations over universal gay marriage, like abortion, being deemed a right found in the “penumbras and emanations” of the Constitution is the chilling effect the ruling has on religious liberty. In a telling exchange between the Obama administration’s Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. and Justice Samuel Alito, detailed by Tom Blumer at Newsbusters.com, in which Verrilli admitted that churches could lose their tax exemptions if they refuse to perform gay weddings:
Justice Alito: Well, in the Bob Jones case, the Court held that a college was not entitled to taxexempt status if it opposed interracial marriage or interracial dating. So would the same apply to a university or a college if it opposed same-sex marriage?
General Verrilli: You know, I don’t think I can answer that question without knowing more specifics, but it’s certainly going to be an issue. I don’t deny that. I don’t deny that, Justice Alito. It is it is going to be an issue.
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Of course they could go after tax exemptions. The question is what to do about it, if anything. Churches sure do trade a lot of free speech for a tax deduction that most people can’t use anyway.
Our emphasis is wrong. We get wrapped up,in how to fight political outrages rather than figuring out ways to go around them and render them as irrelevant as we can.
They have already, but the ostriches have to lift their head up to really see the truth of it.
All these churches that clamored to get that little piece of paper, the 503c certificate, have become part and parcel of governmental operations. I remember when a new ‘satellite’ church of a megachurch on Long Island, NY, 50 miles to the east, received their 503c. They threw a party!! I tried to explain to this ‘Christ for the nations’ school graduate, that he just became another government entity.
In the quest for that paper, ya’s did it to yo’selfs!
The civil side is what changed in the first place. So in my opinion they should get 2nd round, if at all, to show that the faith’s take on it is the correct and obviously more important one.
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GAY MARRIAGE PING
Forbidding a pastor — or any person of faith— from speaking on political issues — violates the prohibition clause to begin with. We’ve been letting the left Bork us.
And so it begins.......
The thing many churches have in their favor it that many of them will not perform weddings for people who are not members or regular attenders.
In almost every church I’ve attended, there have been people who don’t go to church, don’t have any affiliation, are living together, who for some reason or other want a church wedding. The churches would not perform weddings for someone who walks in off the street looking for one.
Precedent has already been set.
Yet America will very well be a missionary field for Christian missionaries from the southern nations.
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