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Maryland County To Churches: Preach Environmentalism And Get A Tax Break
Daily Caller ^
| November 19, 2014
| Derek Hunter
Posted on 11/19/2014 11:01:47 AM PST by C19fan
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I am no Constitutional Scholar unlike our Great Leader but giving a tax break for saying some mandated speech reeks of violating the First Amendment.
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posted on
11/19/2014 11:01:47 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
There is a federal offense on the books called “denial of civil rights under color of law.” Sounds applicable to me.
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posted on
11/19/2014 11:03:27 AM PST
by
Pecos
(That government governs best which governs least.)
To: C19fan
Maryland is exempt from the Bill of Rights. You didn’t know that?
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posted on
11/19/2014 11:03:55 AM PST
by
ChildOfThe60s
((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
To: C19fan
So, Maryland wants to dictate the content of sermons.
To: C19fan
Since environmentalism is nothing more than a political money-making issue, this is a violation of the DNC’s “wall of separation”. Where the heck are the aclu goons?
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posted on
11/19/2014 11:05:23 AM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
('Provisional ballots'. When legal votes just aren't getting the job done. - The DemocRATS.)
To: C19fan
>> Now Prince Georges Country is offering a way for churches to avoid paying the tax
Here’s another idea for a church to avoid the tax: simply refuse to pay it.
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posted on
11/19/2014 11:06:41 AM PST
by
Nervous Tick
(There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed is his demon)
To: circlecity
So, Maryland wants to dictate the content of sermons. Houston just tried doing this, too.
-PJ
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posted on
11/19/2014 11:07:46 AM PST
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: C19fan
A REAL church will not preach Satan’s AGW lies.
If they do, run, run quickly out of that apostate Socialist “church”!
To: C19fan
You have to fundamentally not understand Christianity to ask a church to preach about something that they may not believe in.
ie: asking them to lie.
We are just beginning to see all that happens when a population abandons religion, en masse.
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posted on
11/19/2014 11:09:59 AM PST
by
Noamie
To: ChildOfThe60s
Maryland is exempt from the Bill of Rights. You didnt know that? True. They have no respect for the Second Amendment, for the First's freedom of religion or of speech, or for numerous other God-given rights.
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posted on
11/19/2014 11:15:47 AM PST
by
Pollster1
("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
To: C19fan
What happend to the seperation of church and state. Churches are normally exempt from property taxes.
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posted on
11/19/2014 11:16:02 AM PST
by
Timocrat
(Ingnorantia non excusat)
To: C19fan
This is villainy to the point of being downright evil, as well as opening the door to other state dictates on churches.
Legally, it is clearly in violation of the separation of church and state to its original meaning.
This goes beyond their state to the point that national denominations should file lawsuit against the state over doing this. It is an unconscionable and unconstitutional act and should not be able to survive even a passing federal review.
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posted on
11/19/2014 11:19:22 AM PST
by
yefragetuwrabrumuy
("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
To: circlecity
So, Maryland wants to dictate the content of sermons. And why not? The Federal government, via the tax code, dictates that pastors can't support Republican candidates (although no one complains when they support Democrats).
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posted on
11/19/2014 11:19:44 AM PST
by
MeganC
(It took Democrats four hours to deport Elian Gonzalez)
To: Nervous Tick
Exactly, they’ve no right to tax them in the first place.
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posted on
11/19/2014 11:22:20 AM PST
by
fuzzylogic
(welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
To: Pollster1
(Maryland has) no respect for the Second Amendment, for the First's freedom of religion or of speech, or for numerous other God-given rights. IMHO it is not a coincidence that it's a historically Catholic state and that it's unique view on rights reflects the same kind of predominant thinking of the RCC.
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posted on
11/19/2014 11:23:29 AM PST
by
MeganC
(It took Democrats four hours to deport Elian Gonzalez)
To: Timocrat
Yep. Pass arbitrary taxes on the Church and then coerce them to have a certain message to avoid having to pay.
...it is coming.
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posted on
11/19/2014 11:25:35 AM PST
by
fuzzylogic
(welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
To: C19fan
What do Rats care about freedom of speech? Ewen the lowest slave is free to agree with his master.
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posted on
11/19/2014 11:27:11 AM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Good Muslims, like good Nazis or good liberals, are terrible human beings.)
To: C19fan
Big deal!
For many years, most churches in PG county have used sermons primarily to promote the demoncrat political ideology.
PG churches and schools == Community Organizers (ACORN lives)
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posted on
11/19/2014 11:36:22 AM PST
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
To: MeganC
IMHO it is not a coincidence that it's a historically Catholic state and that it's unique view on rights reflects the same kind of predominant thinking of the RCC. LOL! Massachusetts is as bad or worse re rights, and it's historically a Congregational state. Is that a coincidence?
Harvard itself was founded to train young men for the Congregational ministry -- a conservative talk show host once remarked that it seemed like all our problems have their root in Harvard University.
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posted on
11/19/2014 11:46:42 AM PST
by
maryz
To: zot; GreyFriar
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posted on
11/19/2014 11:48:34 AM PST
by
Interesting Times
(WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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