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Investigation Called Against Tennessee Pastor for Booting Democrats from Church
Israel 365 News ^ | 5/31/22 | David Sidman

Posted on 06/01/2022 2:18:56 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal

A pastor from Tennessee who said Democrats couldn’t be Christians because of the party’s pro-choice stance noted that he gave up his tax-exempt status.

Pastor Greg Locke of Mt. Juliet’s Global Vision Bible Church, close to Nashville, told his congregants he considered Democrats to be “baby butchers.”

In a sermon earlier this month, Locke said: “You cannot be a Christian and vote Democrat in this nation. I don’t care how mad that makes you. You can get as pissed off as you want to. You cannot be a Christian and vote Democrat in this nation. They are God-denying demons that butcher babies and hate this nation.”

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On a Facebook post on Sunday, Locke said that he renounced his tax-exempt status and stood his ground regarding his stance on Democrats.

He added: “Guess what I did this week. I got an attorney, and I dissolved our stinking 501c3 in this church because the Government ain’t gonna tell me what I can and what I can’t say. So, IRS, we don’t need your stupid tax-exempt status. You can put it in a bag and burn it in your front yard for all we care. I renounced 501c3 communism in this church.”

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TOPICS: Current Events; General Discusssion; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: 501c3; abortion; constitution; democrats; greglocke; homosexualagenda; locke; mountjuliet; nashville; tennessee
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To: DannyTN

He’s kicking them out for not agreeing with God. However, he’s probably ready, willing and able to welcome them back should they repent. If a pastor doesn’t purge unrepentant evil, he is then allowing the church to condone it. If a congregant is unsure of something like abortion, he should discuss it with the church leaders and members who are well-versed in Scripture. We may not all agree on which hymns we like to sing together, but we should be agreeing on what is clearly told to us by God.


61 posted on 06/01/2022 3:45:50 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: DannyTN

Danny, you are mixing up Christians that have repented and turned TO God and those that are unrepentant and are rebelling against God. There is a huge difference and you need to know that.


62 posted on 06/01/2022 3:48:43 PM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: Leaning Right

interesting that you call war evil but abortion isn’t. THAT is unbiblical


63 posted on 06/01/2022 3:50:08 PM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Yep.


64 posted on 06/01/2022 4:00:57 PM PDT by sauropod (What we’re living through is not an unintentional accident: it’s the American Holodomor.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Investigate what? The church can do what it wants. If the parishioners dont like it they can leave. Freedom of association.


65 posted on 06/01/2022 4:06:46 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

I’m sorry , a political affiliation Is Not a protected class.
Republicans have been kicked out of many of venues and no one gave a rats ass in the press.


66 posted on 06/01/2022 4:07:51 PM PDT by midwest_hiker
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To: spacejunkie2001

> interesting that you call war evil but abortion isn’t <

Oh, sorry. I thought that was understood. Abortion is the greatest evil of our time. It is akin to the evil of slavery from 200 years ago. This is something I have mentioned on other threads.


67 posted on 06/01/2022 4:07:59 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

i’d agree with him if he had said uniparty (there are plenty of gope abortion supporters).

still, God protect him because he may catch some flak even in God Lovin’ TN.


68 posted on 06/01/2022 4:08:27 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: DannyTN
"I think this preacher is divisive."

Christianity is "divisive" because it preaches truth. You can have your lukewarm and "non-divisive" faith, but it's not Christian.

69 posted on 06/01/2022 4:10:58 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: 2nd Amendment

Not “woke”, just awake.


70 posted on 06/01/2022 4:11:28 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: DannyTN
Call it abortion, or sacrificing your child to Baal, it is all the same thing.

Either way, you cannot serve GOD and Baal at the same time. Either you follow Christ or you follow Baal, you decide.

I chose Christ.

Now I may not kick them out of the church, but they will not be called a brother in Christ until they resent of their sin of worshiping and sacrificing to Baal.

As such they are not allowed to participate in communion.

Plus, they better be ready for me to preach even Sunday that they are as much as sinner as Jeffery Dahmer was for being gay, killing his queer one night stand lovers, and eating their flesh.

If they can come to church every Sunday and hear me say that about them, then they can keep coming, but they are not Christians, and they will be told that every week.

71 posted on 06/01/2022 4:11:50 PM PDT by OneVike (Just another Christian waiting to go home)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

He doesn’t need to have a registered 501c3 to be tax exempt. The State doesn’t have the right to tax the Church, it’s already in the law and was the case at our founding, prior to any agency known as the “IRS”. Even the 501c3 law states “EXCEPT CHURCHES”.

This has been used to muzzle the Church for too long.


72 posted on 06/01/2022 4:12:15 PM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Leaning Right

okay. I was confused when you said this:

“This makes those folks wrong. It does not make them evil”


73 posted on 06/01/2022 4:12:22 PM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: DannyTN

Those individuals aren’t there to see the light, they’re there to undermine the church and the pastor.


74 posted on 06/01/2022 4:13:18 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Why should he renounce his tax exemption?

I see lots of churches involved in politics and they don’t tax taxes either.

My bad. They’re black churches supporting liberals.


75 posted on 06/01/2022 4:15:34 PM PDT by RedMonqey (Fu%k the Ballot box. Now the Cartridge Box)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Trump wanted to rescind the Johnson Amendment, but it did not get done. Had he done it, Biden would have reinstated it anyway:

https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1744/johnson-amendment


76 posted on 06/01/2022 4:17:34 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (“Government is the problem.” --Milton Friedman)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal; Alex Murphy; boatbums; CynicalBear; daniel1212; ealgeone; Elsie; Gamecock; ...

PREACH IT, SIR!!!!!!


77 posted on 06/01/2022 4:27:59 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…..)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

I knew I recognize the pastors name but couldn’t remember anything about him. Anyway search him on the Internet and find out for your self what type of preacher he is. I kind of think of him as some one who goes to the extreme to get attention.


78 posted on 06/01/2022 4:35:10 PM PDT by ReformedBeckite (1 of 3 I'm only allowing my self each day)
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To: Leaning Right

he’s lumping all Democrats together as evil beings. He dead wrong about that.


Please explain.


79 posted on 06/01/2022 4:35:50 PM PDT by cableguymn
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To: DannyTN
But is He going to kick out everyone from His church who didn't have a perfectly clear understanding of every doctrine. Or is He going to keep His promise that whosoever believes on Him shall have everlasting life?

This goes beyond just a matter of doctrine.

It’s not like abortion is a disputable matter as Paul references in Romans 14.

Abortion is murder, plain and simple, and a very gruesome, inhumane one at that.

It is not a matter of just opinion.

Read about what God has to say about the Israelites who murdered their firstborn by burning them alive to Molech.

He’s right on this one and I wish more pastors would take such a stand to protect the lives of the u born.

80 posted on 06/01/2022 4:35:50 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…..)
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