Hannity on now with Priests, Pastors and Rabbis. Please watch

What made me think about it was a priest I saw on the news this morning and he wrongly stated that he couldn’t talk about politics from the pulpit.

The reality is that he can openly endorse a candidate or speak openly about any political policy he wants but will lose the tax exempt status if he does.

Personally I’d like to see more churches ditch the exemption and speak openly against that restriction on free speech.

All that Jamoo the Shrew wench is, is a Muslim Brotherhood Obammy sympathizer, that got a make-over. (Im not just making this up...there are articles about this witch—GOogle her!)

Yes, it’s obvious that liberal abortion laws and widespread contraception and abortion benefit irresponsible male cads much more than they benefit women. Separating sex from procreation has resulted in a severe debasing and devaluation of women. I figure the women who fight for abortion must have serious mental problems not to see this.

>The reality is that he can openly endorse a candidate or speak openly about any political policy he wants but will lose the tax exempt status if he does.

De Facto violation of the first amendment then, as the policy (which is authorized by the Congress) in effect regulates religion.

>Personally I’d like to see more churches ditch the exemption and speak openly against that restriction on free speech.

I agree; it’s a limited application of “you are never more free than when you have nothing to lose.”

You see, I hope, that this is all part of the secular plan. If our taxes are supporting government-designated charities, we have less to give to our churches and their institutions. The tax-exemption may be short-lived if this battle’s lost.

His brother needed a little more encouragement but he eventually did join the fight.

From Wiki

Toward the end of 1775, Muhlenberg was authorized to raise and command as its colonel the 8th Virginia Regiment of the Continental Army. After George Washington personally asked him to accept this task, he agreed. However, his brother Fredrick Augustus Mulenberg, who was also a minister, did not approve of him going into the army until the British burned down his own church in front of him. Then he joined the military himself.

“burned down his own church in front of him.”

0bama and the Democrats are fire-bombing the religious. Dresden II.

Couldn’t disagree more. This is the double standard trick box, the secular left likes to paint.

However, the same secular left who now threaten Dolan & Co. Couldn’t get enough religion in politics in th 1960’s. From the civil rights movement, to the anti-war movement Churches and their ministers spoke their minds unapologetically. The IRS would never dare threaten MLK.

Think about the political ministers from the 1960’s? The Reverend Martin Luther King, te Reverend Joseph Lowery, the Reverend Jessie Jackson, Sloan coffin at Yale, Father Berrigan. Father Drinan was a communist priest elected to Congres!. The liberal left gorged themselves with religion in polotics in the 1960’s when it suited their purposes. Now they act shocked that there is gambling in Casablanca?

Definitely all about religious freedom. So many denominations have spoken out against this!

Hannity on now with Priests, Pastors and Rabbis. Please watch
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Nobody I heard today except Rush discussed the fact that Obama did not reverse, back up, give in, etc. He STILL got his mandate for abortion/birth contri to be universal with ins.furnishing it, free, yet! Nobody except Rush pointed out the most obvious thing that should be discussed.---Obama shredded the 1st Amendment, The Constitution, and American history and freedom in acting like a dictator. Since when does the President have power to mandate anything without Congress, and outside the Constitution.

Just another day and another overreach by our would be emperor.

vaudine

I wish the government of men stop making laws concerning women. It is NOT the president's, the Congress and the Supreme Court business to meddle into women's lives.

The men can do that for themselves, the day they will be able to fall pregnant.

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