[MondoQueen]

It’s against the law to get into politics in Church, although many priests and pastors get around it in various ways without naming names. I don’t know what my priest is saying anyway because I go to a Latin Mass (actually the sermon is in English)

[SamAdams76]

It’s against the law to get into politics in Church

Really? I was unaware of that.

I'm intrigued to hear more.

[madison10]

What politics? Don’t think it’s a political issue as much as a moral one. John the Baptist was not beheaded for chiding Herod for his “politics.”

[PAR35]

It’s against the law to get into politics in Church

Not an accurate statement.

[Mechanicos]

Constitution Says its Legal under the first.

[cripplecreek]

Its not illegal. Most churches don't want to give up the 30 pieces of silver they get in the form of tax exemptions but it is most definitely not illegal to talk about politics from the pulpit.

The seeds of the American revolution were sown by the colonial churches who spoke of freedom from tyranny and the need for self determination.

"It was Sunday morning early in the year 1776. In the church where Pastor Muhlenberg preached, it was a regular service for his congregation, but a quite different affair for Muhlenberg himself. Muhlenberg's text for the day was Ecclesiastes 3 where it explains, 'To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven; a time to be born, and a time to die, a time to plant, and a time to pluck what is planted...'"

"Coming to the end of his sermon, Peter Muhlenberg turned to his congregation and said, 'In the language of the holy writ, there was a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away.' As those assembled looked on, Pastor Muhlenberg declared, 'There is a time to fight, and that time is now coming!' Muhlenberg then proceeded to remove his robes revealing, to the shock of his congregation, a military uniform."

"Marching to the back of the church he declared, 'Who among you is with me?' On that day 300 men from his church stood up and joined Peter Muhlenberg. They eventually became the 8th Virginia Brigade fighting for liberty."

"Frederick Muhlenberg, Peter's brother, was against Peter's level of involvement in the war. Peter responded to Frederick writing, 'I am a Clergyman it is true, but I am a member of the Society as well as the poorest Layman, and my Liberty is as dear to me as any man, shall I then sit still and enjoy myself at Home when the best Blood of the Covenant is spilling? ...So far am I from thinking that I act wrong, I am convinced it is my duty to do so and duly I owe to God and my country."



A Christian who isn't politically active is no Christian at all.

[who knows what evil?]

BS.

[tennmountainman]

What do you mean against the law?

Politics is the bread and butter of black churches

[wideawake]

It isn't against the law to have an opinion on the persecution of Christians.

It is against the law to tell congregants to vote for specific parties or candidates.

Unless you are an African-American pastor - then electioneering is encouraged.

[grumpygresh]

“It’s against the law to get into politics in Church”

No. Especially for the Catholic Church which is not organized as a non-profit religious organization under IRS rules. It is considered simply a free church and its speech is protected under the first amendment. It doesn’t pay taxes either.

The sad fact is that too many Catholic leaders are PC.

[Lets Roll NOW]

Tell that to all the preachers in the “Black Robe Brigade” who preached liberty from the British.

You don’t give up your first amendment rights when you walk in the church.

[EvilCapitalist]

I’m pretty sure it isn’t against the law to preach politics in church. It’s just that the church/minister is not allowed to endorse a specific candidate.

[ETL]

It’s against the law to get into politics in Church

Tell that to "Reverend" Wright.

"God D*** America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11"
--Rev Dr. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's "Black Liberation"(Communist) pastor for twenty + years

"America’s chickens... are coming home... to ROOST!"

[ETL]

It’s against the law to get into politics in Church

Obama's Church: Gospel of Hate
Kathy Shaidle, FrontPageMag.com
Monday, April 07, 2008

In March of 2007, FOX News host Sean Hannity had engaged Obama’s pastor in a heated interview about his Church’s teachings. For many viewers, the ensuing shouting match was their first exposure to "Black Liberation Theology"...

Like the pro-communist Liberation Theology that swept Central America in the 1980s and was repeatedly condemned by Pope John Paul II, Black Liberation Theology combines warmed-over 1960s vintage Marxism with carefully distorted biblical passages. However, in contrast to traditional Marxism, it emphasizes race rather than class. The Christian notion of "salvation" in the afterlife is superseded by "liberation" on earth, courtesy of the establishment of a socialist utopia.
http://web.archive.org/web/20090321190904/http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=30CD9E14-B0C9-4F8C-A0A6-A896F0F44F02
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Catholics for Marx [Liberation Theology]
By Fr. Robert Sirico
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, June 03, 2004

In the days when the Superpowers were locked in a Cold War, Latin America seethed with revolution, and millions lived behind an iron curtain, a group of theologians concocted a novel idea within the history of Christianity. They proposed to combine the teachings of Jesus with the teachings of Marx as a way of justifying violent revolution to overthrow the economics of capitalism.

The Gospels were re-rendered not as doctrine impacting on the human soul but rather as windows into the historical dialectic of class struggle. These "liberation theologians" saw every biblical criticism of the rich as a mandate to expropriate the expropriating owners of capital, and every expression of compassion for the poor as a call for an uprising by the proletarian class of peasants and workers.
http://web.archive.org/web/20090321190909/http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=460782B7-35CC-4C9E-A2C5-93832067C7CD

[Persevero]

No it is not against the law to get into politics in church.

It is against the law to endorse a particular candidate. That’s all.