Obama’s Lawyer: Religious Institutions May Lose Tax-Exempt Status If Court Rules for Gay Marriage

National Review Online ^ | April 28, 2015 | Joel Gehrke

[C19fan]

Rod Dreher's Law of Merited Impossibilility, "It’s a complete absurdity to believe that Christians will suffer a single thing from the expansion of gay rights, and boy, do they deserve what they’re going to get.”

Not a question of if but when the state will go after the tax exempt status of religious based institutions.

[al baby]

What about Cair and those mosques ?

[ealgeone]

Fine....then preachers can say what they want.

[2ndDivisionVet]

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[C19fan]

Unfortunately a lot of preachers and institutions will close if they lose tax exempt status.

[MrB]

“Well”, he continued, “churches that don’t support democrats, that is”.

[OttawaFreeper]

Oh my, the reach of Chicago-style politics is really breathtaking, isn’t it?

[2banana]

From tolerance to acceptance to forced indoctrination...

[ealgeone]

Unfortunately a lot of preachers and institutions will close if they lose tax exempt status.

Then we'll find out who is for Christ and who is for the $$.

[BenLurkin]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3283599/posts

[TexasFreeper2009]

Fine by me, I never liked how the tax exempt status was used to mussel the churches and keep them from inserting themselves into the public discourse.

[MrB]

They already can.
They just have to pay tax on that portion of their time that they spent on non-exempt activity.

So, if he spends 40 hours a week on church activity and a total of one hour per week on non-exempt prep and presentation,
then 1/40th of their “income” would be taxable.

[stylin_geek]

Evidently, Obama’s lawyer needs to reread the First Amendment:

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

Under the First Amendment, churches are not subject to taxation anyway. Unfortunately, churches made a deal with the devil when they accepted 501(c)(3) status with the IRS.

[conservativejoy]

I think that’s their goal, to completely destroy religious institutions.

[C19fan]

Churches might protected but not affiliated charities, educational institutions, etc.

[I got the rope]

We should bring back poll taxes too.

[NorthMountain]

This isn’t really about sodomites.

This is about The Revolution. It’s about replacing Christian culture with socialist culture. It’s about dethroning King Jesus, and enforcing the worship of the Almighty State.

Socialism is idolatry.

[allendale]

That very well persuade Kennedy to vote against the Court legalizing gay marriage across the board but vote that states must “recognize” the validity of marriages performed in states that allow it.

[tenger]

Do you really think it will stop at the revocation of tax exempt status? Next up? Jail time for those who preach against it.

[Nateman]

That was my thought as well. Using some non-sense based fictionally on the 14th to stomp all over the very clear language of the 1st.