Just days before the 2022 midterm elections, a Soros-funded propaganda outlet has accused the Biden administration of not cracking down hard enough on Christian churches.
On Sunday, ProPublica asserted the government hasn’t done enough to prevent Christians from violating the Johnson Amendment, a controversial 1954 tax provision that stops churches from endorsing or opposing political candidates.
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Washingtonstand.com reports: In “Churches Are Breaking the Law by Endorsing in Elections, Experts Say. The IRS Looks the Other Way,” Jeremy Schwartz and Jessica Priest claim to have found 18 churches that violated the nearly seven-decade-old law. In one example, a pastor called the actions of New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) — who spent $10 million of taxpayer money to build a new abortion facility in Doña Ana County and said repealing virtually every limitation on abortion enshrined the “inviolable recognition of humanity and dignity” — “beyond evil” and “demonic.” In another, a pastor said demons worked through local politicians’ actions.
The Soros-funded publication seemingly boasted of the government’s longstanding intimidation of pastors and other clergy. “At one point, churches fretted over losing their tax-exempt status for even unintentional missteps,” wrote Schwartz and Priest. “But the IRS has largely abdicated its enforcement responsibilities as churches have become more brazen.” The last several administrations had done little to enforce the law, especially President Donald Trump, who signed an executive order reiterating his support for churches’ legal free speech rights.
“Pastors should be free to preach without fear of government intrusion,” Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Ryan Tucker told The Washington Stand. “The government simply has no business interfering with the internal affairs of churches, nor should it be able to threaten a church with financial penalties based on a requirement that the church self-censor and surrender its constitutionally protected freedom.”
Future President Lyndon B. Johnson proposed the measure to advance his own career and stifle his political opponents. Two nonprofit organizations — Facts Forum and the Committee for Constitutional Government — took out ads opposing Johnson. The Texan proposed an amendment banning any group with their tax-exempt status from targeting a political candidate with an amendment that the Senate adopted by voice vote without floor discussion in July 1954. The provision “absolutely prohibited” churches or other 501(c)3 institutions “from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of any candidate for elective public office.” Ironically, it came two months after a Senate report claimed the real threat to America came from left-wing nonprofits “changing both school and college curricula to the point where they sometimes denied the principles underlying the American way of life,” and trying “to determine the most effective means by which education could be pressed into service of a political nature.”
Experts say the bill has no constitutional grounding. “The ban on [church] electioneering has nothing to do with the First Amendment or Jeffersonian principles of separation of church and state. The First Amendment speaks of religious freedom; it says nothing that would preclude churches from aligning themselves with or against candidates for political office,” wrote Professor James D. Davidson of Purdue University, who passed away in May. “From a constitutional perspective, then, American churches have had every right to endorse or oppose political candidates.”
Yet the IRS has investigated dozens of churches, even those that did not tell parishioners how to vote. The former rector of All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, California, gave an antiwar, pro-abortion sermon on the eve of the 2004 presidential election telling parishioners that, while “good people of profound faith” could vote for either party, congregants should “vote your deepest values.” In 2000, the IRS stripped a church of its tax-exempt status for running an ad saying that voting for Bill Clinton violated the Scriptures.
Those on the Left say Christian involvement in the political process threatens to destroy all that America stands for. Political activity from churches “creates hurdles for a healthy, functioning, pluralistic, democratic society,” Andrew Whitehead, an associate professor of Sociology at Indiana University at Purdue, told ProPublica. Similarly, Andrew Seidel of Americans United for Separation of Church and State claimed churches’ “total absence of financial oversight and transparency” would “essentially create[e] super PACs” out of local congregations — a notion politically engaged Christians vehemently reject.
“Our nation’s pastors have a long and rich history of speaking into moral issues of concern to our nation — from slavery, to poverty, and all manner of other issues affecting their communities. Those seeking to stifle their voices now trifle with a necessary piece of a self-governing society,” Travis Weber, vice president for Policy and Government Affairs at Family Research Council, told The Washington Stand.
“This is not about money; it’s about free speech,” Weber noted. The Free Speech Fairness Act, reintroduced last February by Republican House Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) and 21 cosponsors, “would ensure pastors continue to have the freedom to speak up and speak out, expressly does not allow money to be used for political purposes; it just provides the maximum amount of free speech protection,” Weber told TWS. He added that church involvement in politics “crosses the political aisle, as Democrat-leaning churches looking to speak to public issues can attest to. Those who want to analyze the issue need to recognize this, and also need not be race-selective in their framing of the issue. Christians of all political stripes, and different racial and ethnic backgrounds, deserve the freedom to speak to public issues of concern. Any other interpretation of this issue misses the mark and fails to tell the whole truth about church, politics, and the public square.”
Efforts to crack down on Christian speech match other Biden administration initiatives such as arresting pro-life advocates and collaborating with social media platforms to suppress stories that present Democratic candidates in a negative light. “They are twisting the IRS policy to try to silence churches,” said Family Research Council President Tony Perkins on “Washington Watch” Monday. “It’s voter suppression. Yes, there’s suppression going on, but it’s the Left trying to suppress evangelicals” and other “Bible-believing Christians.”
“That’s why you need to not only vote yourself, but you need to make sure you’re taking family and friends with you. We have to overwhelm them at the polls and vote biblical values,” Perkins concluded. “Pray, vote, stand.”
Sean Adl-Tabatabai
Churches are mostly vile evil criminal fronts for pedophilia drug trafficking internationally and locally money laundering stealing and fencing and other illegal activities like tax fraud false pretences and hypocrisy.
Your claim is absurd, despite the fact that there surely are a number of various organizations that “use God, religion and churches ” as a front for criminal activity & evil. However, your blanket negative statement, without verifiable statistics, makes it clear that you are ignorant of facts and truth on said subjects, and you despise The Creator God, and all the great things that have been accomplished through MANY churches & Christian organizations around the world, for 2,000 years.
Your a brainless lost soul. Wake up It’s today now not yesterday. Your utterly delusional about reality.
You need to open your eyes The alleged Christian Church’s have killed hundreds of millions of people, stolen trillions of dollars worth of lands and minerals and caused in numwtable wars witch hunts evil inquisitions and been guilty if the greatest crimes against Humanity and GOD possible.
Your delusional deceived and dim-witted.
You are not the one to give good advice on ANYTHING to do with Christians, since you obviously THINK that organizations are individual Christians, which shows lack of basic knowledge. ONLY Christians are saved by faith in Christ, while non-believers (non-Christians) shall NOT see eternal life, but shall see eternal cognizance.
Churches are buildings and/or groups of people, and therefore cannot be judged for good or evil they have done, since they are NOT individual persons. ONLY persons are judged by God. You’re very confused.
Most of what you say has been acheived did not glorify God but Man. Humanism under the cloak of Holy!.Also if religion died tomorrow faith would live on, the death of religion is not the death of faith.
Who could possibly even know what your ranting is about. Go away, for another TEN MONTHS, and immediately upon your return, go away for ten YEARS. Please don’t try to make remarks. The only right thing you mention is a rant that religion & faith are not necessarily the same. All the rest is incoherent dog doo-doo.
Yeh becasue clearly your not intelligent enough! Thanks for getting my post deleted Agent Smith unlike you i am real peron with a life not sitting langley virgina or nsa hq so i cannot contribute this Q fest on a regular basis as you require.
Your reply is flame thus no brainer. Actually you might state an actual point shit for brains.
Isn’t it refreshing to know that we take our orders from a foreigner, who has promoted himself as having his MAIN LIFE’S WORK to be the destruction of the United States? How can we even allow this bastard to speak as if he has something constructive and/or important to offer the world, when we already know about his admitted MAIN GOAL??? Americans should include efforts & prayers to work against this anti-America enemy, as an important part of each of their own personal agendas!!!
Listen bird brain The media reports on him the pitucuans worship him the law serves him He’s agent for the Rule of Law fronting for the Pope you dumbarse,.
Being anti zionist doesn’t mean being unware of catholic power you’re assumptions false dichotomy is limited and all wrong.Especially since you never asked the poster their own views of catholic religion.
PROTOCOLS OF THE MEETINGS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION… Protocol No. 17 – Abuse of Authority
❝WE HAVE LONG PAST TAKEN CARE TO DISCREDIT THE PRIESTHOOD OF “GOYÍM,” . . . FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE HAS BEEN DECLARED EVERYWHERE, SO THAT NOW ONLY YEARS DIVIDE US FROM THE MOMENT OF THE COMPLETE WRECKING OF THAT CHRISTIAN RELIGION . . .❞
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I just found this, but can’t understand why you wasted time writing it, because you are incoherent at the highest level, and make it impossible to know what you’re claiming or whether you’re just spouting words that make no sense, because maybe you just graduated from 4th grade, especially with your “pink stuff”. Uhh, maybe it’s only 3rd grade, with that name, since it may have taken quite a bit of time trying to invent it.
If churches were genuine, they wouldn’t have aligned with government in the first place by making a deal to get tax exempt status in exchange for gov rules.. then breaking them. They invited it on themselves, Didja know that gov has paid churches to get more people to get the shot? Looks like gov only likes it one way, when they get their way – oh but that’s public health, not political, haha. Churches advocating for soros dems are not being targeted.
Correct They’ve been corrupted totally for decades now.
” Ecumenism” Vatican 2 and wcc 1964.
Respectfully, religion is garbage and has nothing to do with Yahowah, the only God. A very few people will walk away, walk to Him, travel the correct and narrow path of His Covenant, learning His nature and plan; and it’s not the masses of religious people following man.
Ooh! Ooh! Do the Jewish synagogues next, George! #TheNoticing.
Satanism is a Jewish cult . . . https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/992756a3522d7d5867a98638b9eb5ac35a524a1c2a0b9d34565d0e5e84e8766c.jpg
Wasn’t jilly bragging about campaigning in black churches this past weekend…? And waht about cultural appropriation when she had soul food for lunch…?
Soros is Jewish, and he’s In Charge, as a direct representative of the Rothschild Financial-Crime family.
The Democrats and the RINOs, along with their Boss Rothschild, are waiting for the MSM to announce the coming of the Messiah.
One of Israel’s top celebrity rabbis (see: A Match Made in Heaven) said in a video sermon posted to YouTube last week that the name of the Messiah will soon be revealed.
Rabbi Nir Ben-Artzi (pictured, right) told Israelis that God is ready to reveal the name of the Messiah, and urged the people to “be in unity” and “get ready!”
Soros hates, Jews He’s a nazi That’s how he made his money in the beginning He hates Israel.
The while Jews all suddenly waiting fir the second coming of the Messiah is a scam set up by the Vatican Do your homework The entire world’s church accepted the Pope as leader almost 20 to 25 years ago when the Inter faith Ecumunical Council met and set up a 1 world religion I’ve been telling it for years Ho and check it out for yourself. Wake up.
Soros fits the Zionist glove perfectly.
Soros is a jew though, so another Zonder Kommander type (self loathing jew the type zionists deny exist)
The Rothschilds work for the Vatican They are enoted by the Popes, have been for a couple of hundred years as their Bankers. That’s who empowers them.
Employed by the Pope’s
It’s the other way around: the Pope works for the Rothschild.
how is it this old tyrant is still able to push his bs anti-prosperity agenda? Soros needs an enema from the mouth, right out the bung-hole.
Because the Rule of Law set him up. That’s the Pope.
Rule law of law Descartes etc, Secular humanism, Postivism zero to do with Pope we in the western world don’t live in a theocracy.
PROTOCOLS OF THE MEETINGS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION… Protocol No. 23 – Instilling Obedience
❝That the peoples may become accustomed to obedience it is necessary to inculcate lessons of humility and therefore to reduce the production of articles of luxury. By this we shall improve morals which have been debased by emulation in the sphere of luxury.❞
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We have free speech, that includes churches & other organizations. The Johnston amendment is/was unconstitutional; it was another tool of the cabal to keep truth from the people. Soros isn’t creator or owner of us/ the world & we don’t take orders from him or any other cabal creep.
There is always supposed to be SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE.
There has never ever been an actual Christian nation anywhere ever that has obeyed the 10 commandments.
Separation of church & state means there is no state religion…ie, Calif. cannot declare that all residents must be Buddhists. It doesn’t mean that the church isn’t able to speak about the state/govmt. Learn the facts, not the cabal propaganda.
Trump is a a good buddy of Soros he defended Soros at maga rally when some ordinary maga women criticised Soros. So check what your signed up to with Trump and maga, kosher conservatives.
Yeh however to maga folks let me point out Trump and Soros are good buddies.
Isn’t it just dandy that we now have foreigners like George Sorryos to dictate what the IRS should do in the US to US citizens?