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Christianity more dangerous than Atheism. 170324. {post•626}.
ding Mar’17 Scmdta: Ok, is Christian Dominionism a coordinated movement? Can you tell me what their agenda is? What they are seeking?
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Five Founding Fathers Who Would Be Rejected by the Religious Right Today.180603. {post•53}.
ding Jun’18 Sfffww: You people don't really understand what a theocracy is or that the 1st Amendment allowed for state established religions, none of which were actual theocracies.
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Something for you "christian nationalists" to think about. 240710 {post•102}
NotfooledbyW Jul’24 Vsfycn: To begin to answer Saint_Ding’s three questions in his Post 170324 post•626 above - See Post:
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Something for you "christian nationalists" to think about. 240710 {post•102}
NotfooledbyW Jul’24 Vsfycn: Saint Ding asks in Post 170324 post•626, “Ok, is Christian Dominionism a coordinated movement?”
MAGA Mar-a-Lago and FRC Family Research Council are an association of Christian Dominionism Churches. They are certainly one the most coordinated mass voting base movements funded by billionaire elites and tithing in US History.
The MAGA:coalition attempted to overturn the 2020 election for its “infallible” leader after he lost the 2020 election as a sitting president. And The wife of a sitting Supreme Court Justice was nefariously involved in the J6, 2021 attempt to stop the transfer of power to Joe Biden, but it fortunately was not successful because the WCN Christian nationalists could not get Mike Pence on board because Pence put the Constitution ahead of his Christian dominionisn beliefs.
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Who Gets to Be a Church These Days? BY
MOLLY OLMSTEAD. JULY 15, 2022.
The Family Research Council is a notorious right-wing policy think tank and lobbying group that has for decades promoted anti-LGBTQ causes with such intensity the Southern Poverty Law Center
labeled it a hate group.
But according to a
report from ProPublica published on Monday, since 2020, it has also been designated as an “association of churches.”
In practical terms, this means that the FRC, as a religious institution, does not need to publicly file a Form 990 that allows anyone to get insight into its financial workings, including into certain assets, grants, and large salaries. It also makes it harder for the IRS to audit the group.
It does not mean, however, that the FRC has suddenly remade itself into something entirely new.
Instead, according to ProPublica, it simply claimed it had “partner churches” that shared in its goal of promoting pro-life and “religious freedom” causes, as well as helping “families flourish,” which is typically code for opposing LGBTQ rights. (The FRC also opposes pornography and divorce and promotes abstinence-based sex education and “
parental rights.”)
The FRC also claimed, on tax forms, that it holds chapel services at its office building for employees.
Perhaps on paper the group was able to differentiate itself enough from its independent political arm, the Family Research Council Action, which does the more explicitly partisan work for the broader organization, endorsing candidates and lobbying for certain bills. But in reality, the two share the same employees and address.
(Until he was accused of molesting multiple young girls, Josh Duggar, who was recently imprisoned for child pornography, was FRC Action’s executive director.)
The nonprofit was formed about 30 years ago as a spin-off of the powerful fundamentalist policy group Focus on the Family because its political work endangered Focus on the Family’s tax-exempt status. And it’s not like the work has gotten less political.
FRC’s current president, Tony Perkins, reportedly had
a cozy relationship with President Donald Trump and was one of the
key advocates behind Trump’s military transgender ban.
But the FRC is only the latest such group to claim religious exemptions.
(According to
the Washington Post, it had changed its status to protect donors’ identities; it still voluntarily releases financial information in its 990s.)
In 2018, the
far-right legal group Liberty Counsel, which
represented Kentucky clerk Kim Davis in her efforts to avoid giving licenses for same-sex marriages, was given the same reclassification. M(Like Perkins, Liberty Counsel
supported the efforts to overthrow the 2020 election.)
Avoiding public scrutiny isn’t the only reason an evangelical nonprofit might want to register as a church. A key point here, particularly with a judiciary so currently inclined toward prioritizing religious interests, is that being labeled a religious group might protect nonprofits legally if they’re found to be discriminating against potential gay employees or are getting into other legal disputes over LGBTQ rights. Z It also fits with a broader trend: In the last few years, Christian nationalists have begun to campaign more aggressively against the ideas that underpin the IRS rules and the very concept of the separation of church and state.
In April, Doug Mastriano, the Republican nominee in the Pennsylvania gubernatorial race, went ahead and called that a “
myth.”
In May, the right-wing megachurch pastor Greg Locke announced that he had “
dissolved” his church’s tax-exempt 501(c)(3) status “’cause the government ain’t gonna tell me what I can and what I can’t say.”
Recently, Rep. Lauren Boebert
said she was “tired of this separation of church and state
