The founders were very learned in Montesquieu's ideas about government and religion, and his admonitions that if government wants to control religion, the best way is not to pass laws restricting it and regulating it, but to embrace it and give it money. We've not only come a long way since the Founding Fathers, we've come a long way AWAY from them. That's why churches we...more

The founders were very learned in Montesquieu's ideas about government and religion, and his admonitions that if government wants to control religion, the best way is not to pass laws restricting it and regulating it, but to embrace it and give it money.

We've not only come a long way since the Founding Fathers, we've come a long way AWAY from them.

That's why churches were never taxed from that time, and it took till the 1950's before they started being "allowed" to be exempt when they accepted restrictions on speech (the most important being political speech) for the bribery of "recognition".

Therefore applying 501c3 to churches is unconstitutional, not just restrictions on their political pronouncements, as the ADF is alleging. But then taxation of churches (and religious and para-church organizations in general) is also unconstitutional, based on the First Amendment.

That's why the U.S. needs a Ron Paul Revolution, but I think judgment will hit first because the churches are in a Jeremiah-mode, "my people love to have it so", they have no discernment and don't inquire to the Lord, and go with wolves in sheep's clothing like Huckabee.

Already the nation has been inflicted with Clinton and Bush presidencies, rigged voting machines, the blood of fifty million innocent babies on its hands, and a nonsensical unbiblical approach to the secular, anti-Christian regimen that reigns in Jerusalem, that has nothing to do with either "Orthodox Judaism" nor the spiritual blessings promised for the true children of Abraham, and who expose themselves that they don't believe in either Moses or the prophets, denying the most important prophecies of all.less