Posted on 04/20/2015 4:56:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The federal government is not held accountable to it’s own laws, regulations, or rules. Those all are only for people that have no money to throw around, and no influence to wield.
Or did you think otherwise?
Seems to me this is only an issue if you have tax exempt status.
Pay your taxes and you can say whatever the heck you want.
You can’t rail against government intrusion when you beg government for tax relief.
IMHO.
The power to tax is the power to destroy.
So, what you’re saying is America has allowed itself to reach a point where the church’s :
1) Tax exempt status is endangered and exists only under the graces of the government
2) Cannot even preach morality to the congregation without it hitting the thin line of electioneering.
3) First amendment rights exist only under the graces of the government.
What have we become as a country then?
This is no longer the United States of America as we once knew it.
Who will monitor atheist groups?
Also, juxtapose the fact that black leftist churches openly “electioneer” without consequence.
You do know this doesnt mean “to establish” right?
It means “establishment “ as in “this establishment reserves the right to refuse service...
Also the term respecting doesnt mean “to respect”...it means “having to do with”.
In modern english it would read
Congress shall make no law having to do with any house of worship or property owned by a house of worship....
Congress needs to make a law to tax.
Does that open your eyes a bit?
They are forbidden from taxing any church...period...for ANY reason.
Campaign laws also dont apply.
Unfortunately these terms have been twisted by the left through the years...
There are historical precedents for the way the IRS proceeds in these cases: the English star chambers and the Spanish Inquisition (where the accused was not entitled to know what the evidence against him was).
RE: Who will monitor atheist groups?
Not the government, they are the DE FACTO favored group since they don’t have tax exemption.
Better to think otherwise.
This is no longer the United States of America as we once knew it.
Exactly right.
But the NYPD was recently instructed to stop surveillance on mosks for PC reasons.
For those unwilling to defend our Constitutionally protected rights, understand the tyrants mean to take them away. And sooner rather than later.
Once they’re gone, we ain’t gettin’ em back - not in our lifetime anyway.
MA Rep Samuel McCall as Congress debated the 16th Amendment, legalizing the income tax in 1909
Until its not. That’s when the pew pew begins.
Please give a translation to what you posted please. Thank-you.
MA Rep Samuel McCall would be shocked to see what he gave us future generations.
What a fool. Believing such virtue lies in the heart of all men. P
When in fact, the opposite is true. Most men will take from others mercilessly wasting all they have taken, until all men have nothing left.
Perhaps he wasn’t a fool, but an intelligent con man, dedicated to emptying my wallet into his under the guise of law?
The left is anti-Christian.
They will use the gov’t as their enforcement to remove Christian influence from society.
In time, it will backfire.
>>You can’t rail against government intrusion when you beg government for tax relief.
SMH.
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