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IRS Strikes Deal With Atheists To Monitor Churches
Investors.com ^
| July 31, 2014
| IBD Editorial
Posted on 07/31/2014 6:16:51 PM PDT by jazusamo
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posted on
07/31/2014 9:36:46 PM PDT
by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
To: Jack Hydrazine
(1) Speaking out against abortion and gay marriage aren’t just political issues. They’re moral issues and the church has a right to speak out against it.
(2) Unions receive tax-exemption status. Why are they allowed lobbying and political activities?
(3) Many doubt that the restriction on free speech would ever hold up if it went to the Supreme Court. The liberals really don’t want to find out. That’s why their threats against the church are usually hollow.
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posted on
07/31/2014 10:56:02 PM PDT
by
boycott
To: jazusamo
These were Biblical issues before they became political issues.
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posted on
08/01/2014 1:01:35 AM PDT
by
Mark85937
(If your cultural views conflict with the Bible, you need to examine your cultural views.)
To: jazusamo
Frankly, I am all for atheists attending church for whatever reason. I have no fear that they are stronger than the Word of God. Perhaps this is the means that the Holy Spirit will use to convict them of sin, the exisence and sovereignity of God, and the transforming power of Jesus Christ.
They will, one day, be aknowledging Him. It is just a question as to whether they will be in the body of believers or out.
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posted on
08/01/2014 2:32:52 AM PDT
by
Jemian
(Kidney infection, malaria and dengue all in the same week)
To: jazusamo
IRS, doing the work of the devil.
45
posted on
08/01/2014 2:59:36 AM PDT
by
Amagi
(Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
To: usconservative
C'mon, even a third grader can see the problems with this "monitoring."These are feds. They won't be up to the level of a third grader for, well, probably ever.
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posted on
08/01/2014 3:19:25 AM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: jazusamo
Because the IRS laws passed by Congress restrict from the free exercise of religion, those laws are violations of the 1st Amendment.
To: jazusamo
how about having the worthless IRS go after black clergy for using their pulpit as democrat recruiting platforms?
The federal gub mint is broken and can’t be fixed.
Time for a revolt!!!
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posted on
08/01/2014 4:03:31 AM PDT
by
Joe Boucher
((FUBO) obammy lied and lied and lied)
To: jazusamo
Now surely this is across the board monitoring...ALL religions, denominations, etc..ALL churches, mosques, places of worship, etc..
Now to avoid conflicts we are going to need multiple monitors at each and every service, gathering, or event at each and every place of worship... one monitor of every religion(don’t want one getting an upper hand on another), race, ethnicity, gender, gender identified for that matter, political persuasion, etc...because ones inert restating may differ from others..(maybe if there is a difference of interpretation there can be an IRS division for that? Or courts?)
Wow, this can be a HUGE undertaking...unless of course it’s meant to single out Catholics.
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posted on
08/01/2014 4:15:50 AM PDT
by
jughandle
(Big words anger me, keep talking.)
To: jazusamo
... the IRS settles with atheists by promising to monitor sermons for mentions of the right to life and traditional marriage. If the IRS will monitor church sermons for something like marriage and abortion, why doesn't the NSA/FBI monitor mosques for sedition?
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posted on
08/01/2014 5:31:06 AM PDT
by
raptor22
(Follow me on Twitter @gerfingerpoken or facebook.com/danielsobieski)
To: jazusamo
Fine...let them monitor the sermons....but first Congress should pass a transparency bill requiring a monitor at each service to wear a swastika armband and sit in a front pew.
Leni
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posted on
08/01/2014 5:39:43 AM PDT
by
MinuteGal
(Combined US Senate & House has completely lost its voice, its compass, its patriotism & its soul!)
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posted on
08/01/2014 5:54:35 AM PDT
by
raptor22
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To: raptor22
It just gets weirder and weirder by the day. :>{
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posted on
08/01/2014 5:56:18 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Ethnicity: Nascarian. Race: Daytonafivehundrian)
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posted on
08/01/2014 6:10:08 AM PDT
by
raptor22
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To: jazusamo
This sounds like the friendly lawsuit scam that the environmentalists work all the time with EPA, DOI, COE, etc.
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posted on
08/01/2014 6:30:14 AM PDT
by
Truth29
To: jazusamo
What a lot of people don’t know is that any donation to a church is tax deductible even if that church is not a 501 c3. If I were a church I would give up 501 c3 then speak out on political issues all day long.
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posted on
08/01/2014 9:29:01 AM PDT
by
ColdSteelTalon
(Light is fading to shadow, and casting its shroud over all we have known...)
To: bamahead
I’m not seeing the big deal here. Only about 1/3 of taxpayers itemize and are able to make any use of charitable deductions. Of those people only maybe 1 or 2 percent will be audited. So the chance of anyone taking a charitable deduction and having a problemis nil.
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posted on
08/01/2014 10:23:41 AM PDT
by
RKBA Democrat
(Be a part of the American freedom migration: freestateproject.org)
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
08/01/2014 10:37:21 AM PDT
by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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posted on
08/01/2014 11:33:09 AM PDT
by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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