Tuesday June 30 2015
Remember how the leftists said all of the Christian worrying over the Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage was bunk? Christians pointed to other countries where the church had lost its religious liberties. The left said they were crazy. Well, leftists are already foaming at the mouth calling for just that. Hold onto your butts…
Well—it just so happens the New York Times published an article literally titled…
“Now’s the Time To End Tax Exemptions for Religious Institutions”
The argument in a nutshell: churches should now be considered “political” entities, therefore the government should be allowed to take away their tax exempt status. Of course the entire goal here is to effectively terminate the church.
Boom. Would an ‘I told you so’ here be too cliché? In record time too!
All you really had to do was look at Canadian and English churches and observe the course of history to see this was coming down the pipeline. Or, how about in Denmark? Churches have no choice there. None whatsoever. A gay couple, not being members of your church, can demand that your church (any church) marry them. Period. Good lord, even I had to go through a screening process before the church signed off on me. I’m still shocked that they did.
But you don’t even have to go out of this country to see the persecution began long before the Supreme Court ruled same-sex marriage legal. In 2014, pastors in an Idaho community were forced to marry gay couples—or face fines and jail time.
Regardless of where you line up, this was plain to see and predict. The Gay community attacked Christians (while simultaneously ignoring Muslims) relentlessly before they had the constitutional right to be married. What do you think they’re going to to with the power of the courts at their disposal?
How about enjoying the win and just, I don’t know, tolerating the church? Their church has literally zero effect on your marriage. So why do you care?
Sound familiar?
This is wrong How can you stay to that government and church are separated then for a man of God to go against his beliefs. O but read the Bible it tells you these days are coming. All true Christians keep your faith and let’s stand in the glory of God. I pray God has mercy on our souls. I pray those who are not believers can change their hearts so they will not find the punishment in which only the Lord can give.
God bless America and all the world.
Facebook is blocking this page from bring posted. Tried on 2 different browsers, multiple ways, all I get is “something went wrong”. Post everything else fine.
I am having the same issue
I’m very sad to see the shambles our country has become. We as Christians are being made out as if we’re hateful….I am empathetic to
People who are lost. These issues are very serious! I’m so tired of hearing about everything except the real important issues….tired of our government sitting on their butt while people are being slaughtered for their beliefs not just in other countries but our own as well ! I cry every day and I pray Jesus comes soon. I just want to be ready and be a good and faithful servant ! So so sad….I hope we can reach more of the Lost…before Jesus comes….
The article would have been better if you would have defined “they”. Who is trying specifically? Do they have backing? Credible threat of success?
Or simply let us know this was one single nutjob writer among hundreds who works for the Times and they just ran with it.
Just constructive criticism. Love us Crowder
The only reason that Christians would be singled out and gone after is to disenfranchise them. Christians view themselves as the worst example that they need to get over with Christ. The warring with Christians only involves a bigotry because of the different and opposing viewpoint. Christians would give their lives for a homosexual, but cannot give up their understanding of life for them, nor neither should they have to.
Well I’m not against gays! My daughter is. So I just wanted to make it clear. But by God what happened to the rights to religious beliefs. The government wants to allow gay marriage the let the government marrie them. They don’t need to go to a church to get married. Let the damn jpo marrie the. God bless America what’s left of it
…The churches aren’t required to marry gay people you goddamn morons. If the pastor doesn’t wanna marry 2 gay people he doesn’t fucking have to. God you people are fucking retarded. The legislation just makes the marriage of gay people legal in the eyes of the law for tax purposes.
I told ya so, too.
I had s heck of a time trying to figured
how to share your “So it begins” Religious Freedoms its Bigotry Banner. I try hitting the Share button several times. I kept getting an error. So I copied the UIL and it worked!!!
First, the article is in Time magazine, not the NYTimes. Second, his argument is NOT that churches are political entities, but that 1) their tax exemptions allow them to hold valuable assets that normal taxpayers can’t afford, such as the churches on Fifth Avenue; 2) nonprofits sometimes abuse their status, e.g. universities getting exemptions on faculty housing, and 3) nonprofit statuses force taxpayers to subsidize organizations they are philosophically opposed to, such as Planned Parenthood. He is calling for an overhaul of the snarled-up system of tax exemption IN GENERAL, and he makes some excellent points. This is decidedly not the article you are portraying it to be. I’ve been a Crowder fan for many years, but he just lost a great deal of credibility with me.
Do the meaning of religious freedom and personal freedom change when you force your beliefs on everyone else? Go to what ever church you want just dont come beating on my door at 8 a.m preaching to me! Fuck who ever you want as long as i dont have to see it everytime i turn on my tv open my door walk down the street!!!!!!! Good fucking god damn! Keep your shit behind your fucking bedroom doors like it was ment to be!!!!!! Leave me alone and I’ll leave you alone why is that so hard to comprehend? ?
I’d like to see these guys try and protest in front of a mosque. They won’t, and I know why. They know why, but won’t admit it as the Islam are the sacred cows of the liberals.
A religious tax exemption is, and always has been, conditional on that organizations non-involvement in the political sphere. The protected status, or lack thereof, spans all religious organizations. Not just christians, or even other followers of Abraham, like jews and muslims. And the pope just proposed that churches that don’t support the needy lost their exemptions as well. Given how much money was spent by religious organizations to fight against a gay persons religious freedom, in a losing war against a legal contract of marriage being gender exclusive, I’d say that gay people, and their families and loved ones, have a right to point out the lack of accountability here. A church that gets involved with politics, for tax purposes, is then a political entity, and is to be taxed as one. It is the law. You can dislike the law, but if a political organization declared themselves to be a religious one, to avoid paying taxes, you’d probably be all kinds of mad. And to be clear, religious rights are not being infringed on. You can believe whatever you want, publicly, without fear of reprisal from any government agency, with equal protection under the law. So can gay people. Which is why your religious views cannot be used to determine their rights. You don’t want churches to lose their exemptions? Fine. Then tell them to follow the requirement to be eligible for that exemption. That is equal treatment, not persecution.