Hum Dinger
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It's a precedent the supreme Court ruled on it many timesMaybe they should have. The priest who took your confession could have told them to deny you until you did penance. In this case, however, Quid Pro is a well known person who deliberately and steadfastly refuses to follow Church doctrine and has voted for and supported legislation that the Church disagrees with. There is no good reason why he should be allowed to participate.Do you blame them.Democrats to declare war on the Catholic Church for following their own doctrine and holding politicians accountable for their public policies.
That’s sure to go over well with Hispanic voters.
I was never asked my name when I received the host. For all they care I could of been a serial killer that tortured many children before I killed them.
Give unto Ceaser what is Ceaser, and
It violates the separation of church and stateCan't tax religion, it's unconstitutional. It violates the First Amendment, sorry.They should be stripped of that anyway. The church as an entity.
I believe orgs like Catholic Charities and the Sisters of Mercy will be OK.
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
Hypothetically? It would pose an undue burden on new religions, favoring established well off denominations of Protestantism, Judaism, and Catholicism .. . . which would, by default, amount to the state sanctioning those as establishment religions.
Taxing religion interferes with the "free exercise thereof." Sorry godless atheist. . . YOU ARE SHIT OUT OF LUCK.
Wow, you have that backwards!
The tax laws exempt religions from paying taxes. Therefore, the tax law is a law which 'Respects establishments of Religions'. The exemption should be removed from the tax laws, then religious organizations would have to pay taxes like everyone else.
Making religious organizations pay taxes would in no way prohibit the free exercise of that religion.
Sorry, voodoo man, your argument is BULLSHIT!!!
Where in the Constitution does it specifically say that there is a separation of Church and State?
That's a principal, not a law.
The Constitution says: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of Religion".
The Tax code is a law that respects establishments of religion. It violates the first amendment.
Scotus ruling determined that the government MAY give tax exemptions to religious organizations, but it did not rule that the government MUST give tax exemptions to religious organizations.
So the government may tax religious organizations.
The fact that SCOTUS found that tax exemptions didn't violate the first amendment was due to pure political and cultural nonsense.
Taxation of Religious Entities
Through tax exemptions, legislatures have sought to encourage effects of religious organizations while avoiding First Amendment–based concerns of excessive government entanglement.
www.mtsu.edu