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And then pray tell, what will you threaten them with to force obedience to your morality?
If the church loses its tax exemption then the pastor will be free to speak on political issues.
It’s worth it.
It's not tax-deductible, but it's a way around the gay supremacists.
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Seems to me a "church" should just stand by its fidelity to truth. It's gotten too corporate. Too big business. Charlatans like Joel Olsteen have become multimillionaires off of sham religion and have consequently become influential in politics.
"In the temple, and at home, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus as the Christ." Acts 5:42
Let's get away from the entertainment oriented Sesame Street presentation of a feel good message and become what God demands. We don't need tax exemptions, income producing property, etc, to do that.
Except for most congregations of the United Church of Christ, the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., the Evangelical Lutheran Church, the Unitarian Universalist Association, the Society of Friends, the Episcopal Church, the Conservative Jewish Movement, and the Reform Jewish Movement. Plus others that will eventually jump on the bandwagon. These will constitute the “established religion” of the United States.
But he can find a pastor of another Church to preform the ceremony......Reciprocate among the Churches, and shut your mouth..
The key word in this is "I".
I am not sure that the ruling elite would be happy having churches participating in elections directly. So probably they won’t lose their tax status.
Boy, they don’t want to go there. Seriously.
Mosques too?
Churches could avoid this by requiring all who seek the blessing of holy matrimony to first get a civil license. Then the churches will be able to confir their blessings on those who meet the church’s requirements for the blessing.
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!
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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.