I wonder how they’ll feel once Mosques and the Satanic Temples start doing that.
Easy, they’ll deem them not churches, and tax the shit out of them.
That sounds about right for this administration.
Noooo stop please don’t build a coalition for me I hate it.
Unfortunately we’ve seen over and over again that they are very narrow in what they accept as protected religious belief. Because they don’t really care about freedom or the first amendment, just coercing their particular beliefs on others
The Christian peoples democratic republic of America!
Wull, you see, The Satanic Temple didn’t exist back when English common law ruled colonial America. Ipso facto, it doesn’t exist.
“Bona fide communications internal to a house of worship, between the house of worship and its congregation, in connection with religious services, do neither of those things, any more than does a family discussion concerning candidates,”
So… can I register my family as a nonprofit?
Only if you ask them for donations at every gathering
Time to start a church. One that actually performs charity.
This could actually backfire because the Evangelicals were already doing this. Perhaps the more liberal churches, although dwindling with membership, which had refrained will feel free to badmouth Trump using his name.
Oh you don’t understand, those won’t be considered churches but “radical liberal sex dens” or something like that
Is it bad that I had already assumed that this was happening all along? I feel like evangelical megachurches and politics have been joined at the hip for a while now. I guess a formal endorsement is a different thing than just complaining about who is/isn’t in power, but still…
Yes, politicians were afraid to do anything about it for decades. It was a wink wink arrangement. Now it will be more official
@dantheclamman “Honey, hurry up, we’ll be late for PAC.”
<blink>fascism in progress</blink>
“Next Sunday we will be moving away from the typical bread and wine, in favor of our new sacraments, hunks of Big Mac and Diet Coke.”
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