Employee Fired Over 'Anti-Gay' Column

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Tue May 20, 2008 4:46 am Agree: 1   Disagree: 0

The day will come that not only can public employees be fired for opposing homosexuality or abortion; they might well face both civil and criminal penalties for engaging in "hate crimes." Then will come the day when we'll see pastors dragged out of the pulpit in handcuffs for preaching against such sins. All of this was foretold by Jesus and it’s going to get much worse. That doesn't mean we shouldn't take political, civil, and Christian actions to try and correct this situation since we’re supposed to be the salt of the earth. In the meantime we need to pray for Ms. Dixon.

Pastors Encouraged to Challenge IRS Ban on Political Preaching

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Mon May 12, 2008 9:57 am Agree: 2   Disagree: 0

It's time churches gave up their Faustian deal with the Infernal Retribution Sackers by giving up their 501c3 status. Until they do so they won't win a lawsuit on the issue because they've entered into a business contract with the IRS. Of course giving up their status would create a panic with politicians who would try to find ways to tax churches while still excluding them from speaking out in the public square.

I find the restrictions to be un-American as it was pastors who encouraged patriots to oppose British oppression, abolitionists to oppose slavery, and civil rights marchers to end segregation. Today such wouldn't be allowed. I won’t go into the issue that some churches fear donations might be lost if without tax exemptions other than to say if mammon is their goal then they’re not trusting God.

However, take the Bob Jones University ruling as an example of what can happen. While Bob Jones University was in error it's its beliefs on interracial marriage and therefore on interracial dating, the IRS ruling was that the university wasn’t complying with accepted societal beliefs. That could be interpreted to mean any belief the government found offensive such as teaching against homosexuality or abortion, which likely will happen under Pres. Obama and a Democratic controlled Congress.

Many Americans misunderstand the Constitution; particularly it would seem many politicians at the highest levels. The Constitution does several things. It sets up our form of government, a democratic constitutional republic, not a democracy; sets up qualifications for office, specifically enumerates the powers of the Federal government while limiting its the scope, and delineates our government as one of federalism; a system in which sovereignty is divided between a central and state governments such that the power to govern is shared between the national and state governments, although this has been seriously eroded with the 1824 supreme Court decision in the case of Gibbons v. Ogden which has resulted in the Commerce Clause being used as a wedge to get around the Enumerated Powers Clause and the 9th and 10th amendments and by the Civil War in which President Lincoln seriously violated the Constitution but saved the Union.

While many claim the concept of separation of church and state limits people of faith in the public square, nothing could be further from the truth. The First Amendment prohibits the Federal government from interfering in or establishing a religion, not prohibiting citizens from expressing their religious view in the public square or from becoming involved in the government. People of faith have as much rights in the public square as any other citizens and that can be backed up by the 9th and 10th Amendments to the Constitution, not that any of the Bill of Rights are intact anymore save the Third, so far.