Posted on 09/26/2012 2:04:47 PM PDT by NYer
It’s ok if they’re in black churches.
1001...I just sent to my favorite Pastor. I can guarantee he’ll join in.
The IRS rule is an end run around the Constitution and should be abolished.
Churches have Constitutionally protected free speech, BUT if they choose to exercise that free speech in a manner the government disapproves of, the government penalizes them by raising their tax rate.
If the government is going to force churches to fund abortions then f the governments rules about politics from the pulpit.
Let the insurrection begin. This is as good a place as any. If they prosecute dissolve and reform. A name doesn’t mean much.
Apparently this was not an issue at all until 1954:
http://www.speakupmovement.org/church/LearnMore/details/5252
The Johnson Amendment was passed by Congress in 1954 as an amendment to section 501(c)(3) of the federal tax code. The Johnson Amendment states that entities who are exempt from federal income tax cannot:
Participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distributing of statements), any political campaign on behalf of or in opposition to any candidate for public office.
http://www.firebuilders.org/JAmCEC.htm
In 1954, Johnson was facing re-election to the Senate and was being aggressively opposed by two non-profit anti-Communist groups that were attacking Johnsons liberal agenda. In retaliation, Johnson inserted language into the IRS code that prohibited non-profits, including churches, from endorsing or opposing candidates for political office. In effect, Senator Johnson used the power of the go-along Congress and the IRS to silence his opposition. Unfortunately, it worked. Some in Johnsons staff claimed that Johnson never intended to go after churches, only the two nonprofits in Texas. Nevertheless, his sly amendment to the tax code affected every church in America, and it is a violation of the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.
Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, Barak obastard ... the four most evil presidents in the history of the country.
In the 58 years since this was added, seems strange that I have never heard of an attempt to amend the amendment and get rid of it.
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Fixed!
See tagline.
Come and get me, Copper!
This has been going on in “Democrat” churches for ever. Black churches are the worse. They should have had their tax status stripped eons ago.
You beat me the the punchline.
Eric Witholder is our nation's the "top cop" [barf] and is committed to his New Black Panthers, Black Caucus communists, and his law firm Covington & Burling who handled Blago and pro bono - Gitmo detainees.
In March 2004, Holder and Covington & Burling were hired by Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich to act as a special investigator to the Illinois Gaming Board. The investigation was subsequently canceled on May 18, 2004.
Representation of Guantanamo Bay inmates
According to The American Lawyer's annual pro bono survey, Covington lawyers spent 3,022 hours on Guantánamo litigation in 2007, "the firm's largest pro bono project that year".Lawyers from the firm who have become administration officials have been advised by ethics officials to recuse themselves in matters involving detainees represented by their former firms, but not from policy issues where they were not personally and substantially involved. Lanny Breuer is one of those who has had to recuse on from some [sic] matters since leaving the firm for a government position.Covington also co-authored one of three petitioners' briefs filed in Boumediene v. Bush, "and was responsible for several detainee victories" in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. "At least one high-ranking appointee played a key role in advancing detainees' rights," but they did not participate in litigation over the Guantanamo Bay prison itself.
P.S. sorry for the Wikipedia references, but the source is respected by progressives, so it's unassailable /sarc
The IRS has overlooked the Dhim slave quarters for too long to pretend to care anymore.
Excellent post.
The statists are in hypergallactic global turbo mode to "control freedom in order to preserve it".
bttt
Religious freedom? Separation of Church and State? ObamaCare forces employers to provide abortions to their employees. Romney forced Catholic Charities to stop providing adoptions in Mass. because they would have been required to do same sex adoptions. He tried to force Catholic Hospitals to perform abortions. San Francisco City Council and Board of Supervisors passed a resolution condemning the Catholic Church. These are examples of what is happening to religious freedoms.
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