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Should churches that del. Preach Politics from the Pulpit lose their tax exemption?
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And even if they weren't a 501(c)(3), they would still be a non-profit, and therefore not be taxed.
EDIT - turns out that an organisation's political lobbying does have a bearing on whether its donations are tax exempt (for example, donations to the Council of Canadians are not tax exempt) . . . so maybe we are more similar to the U.S. than I thought.
I mean, I personally think a line was crossed somewhere, but I can't really define that line, so I'm honestly not sure there's a case. How do you prove that the church forced these people to donate?
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
But more seriously, I thought pretty much every president there has been is religious.
That's what it was supposed to be. Limited space, etc. I was more specific in the OP.
This is the point I'm getting at.
This is what happened with the Mormon Church and Prop 8 and the backlash against Obama.
Though, Canada and most of Western Europe can get away with a lot looser laws on stuff like that than we can.
It was an anti communist thing too. Plus it wasn't even on the money till the civil war.
but they're listening to every word I say
I think they can have a position on it until it was passed without any penalty as laws are not supposed to be retroactive. I guess they could still have unofficial positions though.
I thought it was "Out of many, one"
Which is a much better one in my opinion since the huge immigration to America is kind of the reason why it's such a powerful country.
http://hushmoney.org/501c3-facts.htm
Churches are tax exempt without 501c3, and donations to them are tax deductible whether they are 501c3 or not. Freedom of speech still applies to the Church.
Do you maybe have a link to something on the IRS' site, or something like that, because the section on 501(c)(3)s would seem to indicate that a church has to qualify for tax exemption in order to take advantage of it, which would mean that they would still be forbidden from endorsing candidates.
Yes, abortion is murder. So are capital punishment, participating in wars, euthanasia or mercy killing, and martyrdom. It's not like all murder is unacceptable to Christian churches.
Should Churches have automatic exemption from taxes? Hell no.
"under God" was added to differentiate the United States from the filthy godless commie demons.
http://www.irs.gov/irm/part7/ch10s01.html#d0e85711 - the same IRS code as cited on that website. Yes, I know the site has bias, but it does actually cite the law.
How many churches do you know of that bring in less than $5,000 a year? I mean, that doesn't even come close to covering living expenses for a full-time priest.
1Unless excepted under IRC 6033(a)(2). A mandatory exception is for " churches, their integrated auxiliaries, and conventions or associations of churches."
The statement about $5,000 gross is confusing at face value, but ultimately it comes out as (churches) and ( organizations that are not private foundations and that normally have not more than $5,000 in gross receipts each taxable year.) are exempt.
I'm just trying to point out that Churches are tax exempt automatically. That's all, no more and no less.