The admission was made by Barack Hussein Obama's lawyer, the
sitting Solicitor General of the United States, Donald Verrilli, Jr., on
Tuesday, April 28, 2015, during questioning by Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States, Samuel Alito, Jr.
Solicitor General Verrilli, using a public office to defend same-sex marriage on behalf of the United States, was asked by Justice Alito if religious institutions could be at risk of losing their tax-exempt status due to their beliefs about Biblical marriage. Verrilli's reply was, "It's certainly going to be an issue."
Solicitor General Verrilli, using a public office to defend same-sex marriage on behalf of the United States, was asked by Justice Alito if religious institutions could be at risk of losing their tax-exempt status due to their beliefs about Biblical marriage. Verrilli's reply was, "It's certainly going to be an issue."
Chief Justice
John Roberts then asked, would a religious school with married housing be
required to afford such housing to same-sex couples?
Solicitor
Verrilli did not say no. Instead, he responded with, "Presently, the
federal government does not have a law banning discrimination on the basis of
sexual orientation and gender identity."
This all took
place as thousands of gay and lesbian activists rallied outside the Supreme
Court in Washington on Tuesday, the groups which demand
"tolerance" but have none for anyone else acting upon their own
moral principles which are antithetical to their own.
So, what does
this tell us? The Solicitor General of the United States government officially
told the Supreme Court of the United States what the official policy of the
Obama Administration is going to be―that the tax-exempt status of churches and
religious schools will in fact be in jeopardy if they dare to oppose the
presidential proclamation mandating homosexual
marriage. Likewise, Christian colleges will
survive only as an accommodation on a state-by-state basis, and until
Washington passes its own federal legislation or regulations.
Understanding
the extreme lawlessness and rebellion of the current administration and its
hatred of all that is moral and virtuous and decent, it should come as no
surprise that this agenda not only flies in the face of the law, it establishes
a direct insurgency against the lawful authority of the People.
The
Constitution of the United States of America―still the Supreme Law of the Land
since it has not yet been lawfully amended, repealed or rescinded―is crystal
clear about the role the federal government can play in going against the
American people regarding their freedom to engage in and not be denied
religious convictions.
The Bill of
Rights, which is inseparable from the Constitution, says in its Preamble, "...having at the time of their adopting the
Constitution," the Conventions of a number of the States "expressed a
desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that
further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending
the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the
beneficent ends of its institution."
Many states in
the Union in fact flat-out refused to sign the Constitutional contract between
the States and the People into law without the addition of the Bill of Rights
to further bind down the hands of the government from potential abuses of the
unalienable Creator-endowed rights of the People.
The First Article in Amendment to the Bill of Rights: 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.
Did everyone
catch that? The active clause is "shall make no law," and
there is no interpretation needed or warranted for such simple, coherent and
succinct language. It is undeniable in its intent. Where is this all headed?
A group of
prominent Christian leaders, including Reverend Franklin Graham, Dr. James
Dobson, Governor Mike Huckabee and National Religious Broadcasters (NRB)
President Jerry Johnson, signed a letter to warn the Supreme Court that they will
not obey. The pledge in solidarity to defend
the sanctity of marriage said, "We respectfully warn the Supreme Court not
to cross that line. We stand united together in defense of marriage. Make no
mistake about our resolve."
Several of the
signers made it very clear that they are calling for widespread civil
disobedience and resistance. To their credit, the Declaration
of Independence, our nation's very first official
founding declaratory document which is still in effect and preceded
even the Articles of Confederation, laid the preliminary groundwork for the
duty of all Americans, should our government become the despotic and destructive
force that it has become. And it goes way farther than mere civil disobedience
and resistance. It commands forceful yet lawful removal and replacement of that
government, by the People:
"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of [our
Creator-endowed unalienable Rights of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of
Happiness], it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to
institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and
organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect
their Safety and Happiness. . . . But when a long train of abuses and
usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce
them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off
such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
We are quickly
approaching a very dangerous time for this country. The United States has never
been so polarized and divided since the Civil War. And it's no wonder,
considering that Obama has compared his presidency to that of Abraham
Lincoln's, the man who presided over the most tumultuously divided and war-torn
era in our nation's history. In fact, Obama
has been compared to President Lincoln over and over and over again. Is that a giveaway?
There were two
divisive political issues during the time of the Civil War of the mid-19th
century which had profound religious and moral connotations. The two issues
were human slavery and marriage. In both political battles, the early
Republicans led the nation in morally opposing two great sins that were
threatening to tear the country apart. First, the sin of slavery, which was
hotly defended by the Democratic Party. The second issue was Mormon polygamy.
During the
presidential election of 1856, the Republican Party platform pledged to
"...prohibit in the territories those twin relics of barbarism, polygamy
and slavery."
The
Republican-dominated 37th United States Congress passed the Morrill
Anti-Bigamy Act, and Abraham Lincoln, America's
first Republican President, signed it into law on July 8, 1862. The law banned
marriages of a plurality of more than one man and one woman.
Contrarily, the
radical, lawless Mormons in the state of Utah ignored the federal law. Congress
passed tougher anti-polygamy laws, including the Senator
Poland Act of 1874, which called for federal
prosecution of polygamists and eliminated the control that Mormon members
exerted over the justice system in Utah. The Mormon polygamy activists were so
radical and determined to change the definition
of marriage, that federal military forces were
deployed to the Utah territory to suppress the insurrection. And Utah's courts
and law enforcement agencies were reorganized to break-up the considerable
power of the Mormons.
The Republican
party's defense of traditional marriage was so strong that the Congress refused
to allow Utah Congressman George Cannon to take his seat in the House, because
he was married to multiple women.
Fast-forward to 2015.
The two issues
tearing this country apart are comparably moral issues: abortion and same-sex
marriage. This time, however, the Republican Party has lost its moral compass
and is quickly drifting into irrelevance as a political force. It is merely a
hollow shell of its strong forebear and is now vestigial at best. Simply said,
it has acquiesced and no longer has any teeth. Does that offend you? Well,
judging a tree by the fruit it bears, what do you see?
It is high time
that ALL Bible-believing Christians walk out of both the fallen Democratic and
Republican parties and do whatever is necessary within the law to restore the
principles and ideals which this nation was founded upon.
Not only do the
Holy Scriptures portend the devastating conclusion this is leading to, but
non-religious historical and literary texts do as well. Every shining nation of
significant cultural and philosophical renaissance which descended into
same-sex practices and sodomy, pedophilia, child sacrifice and abortion, human
slavery, the practice of witchcraft and other depravities—from antiquity to
recent recollection—has been taken into captivity, fallen by the sword, brought
utterly to ruin, laid waste and turned to ash.
Did I make
myself clear? Anyone who can't yet see
the writing on the wall is willfully blinded. These two magazine issues were
released by two separate media outlets on the same day, back on May 21, 2012:
Also, more recently, the White
House Tweeted a bizarre propagandistic photo
on April 10, 2015, depicting a Barack Obama with a god-like rainbow emanating
from his hand. Thankfully, the ostentatious gasconade of the Obama White House backfired and received a deluge of sarcastic
condemnations from even his former ardent
supporters.
And probably a
vast majority of these now disillusioned people once viewed him as "sort
of a god," the "second
coming," the "god
of all things," the "messiah," the "alpha
and the omega," their "lord
and savior," and many
other exalting apotheoses.
Every true
Christian knows exactly what is going on here. The rainbow was set in the
clouds as a sign from the Creator God, an eternal covenant between Him and
us that He would never again judge the earth and its inhabitants by water:
And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me
and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual
generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of
a covenant between me and the earth. And the bow shall be in the cloud;
and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between
God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth (Genesis 9:12-13,16).
And what was
the reason God judged the earth in the first place? Because God "saw that
the wickedness of man was great in the earth," that "every
imagination of his heart was only evil continually" [1]. Every living thing had corrupted and defiled its flesh in
defiance of the natural way that God had divinely ordained. And that is the
reason that the gay and lesbian community have adopted the rainbow as its
"Gay Pride" banner, because is at the very heart of the original sin
which has vexed mankind from day one, is pride.
In conclusion,
notwithstanding the office of the presidency being used as a subversive
political machine to dictate amorality, an extreme polarization is coming to
this nation. It will be felt strongest between the true followers of the
teachings of Jesus Christ who take a stand for our faith, no matter
what, and those weak, apathetic and apostate religionists who render unto
the abominable will of wicked men for purposes of security and political
correctness.
This issue of
sodomy, which taunts under the banner of pride, will separate
the sheep from the goats in the very
near future. And if that issue doesn't purify the body of Christ, then the
overhanging genocide of 70+ million unborn children since Roe v. Wade most
assuredly will. For the righteous blood of the innocent cries out to God from
the ground for vengeance [1][2][3], and only the pure in heart will be blessed, and only they
will see God.
"If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated
you" (John 15:18), And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake:
but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved" (Mark
13:13).
Source:http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/05/war-on-christianity-american-churches-who-oppose-same-sex-marriage-will-lose-tax-exemption/
Another Opinion from LA times:
Will a religious institution lose
tax-exempt status for refusing to marry a same-sex couple?, LA Times, 6/26/15
A hot question
in conservative circles for months gained steam Friday with the Supreme Court's
landmark decision on same-sex marriage. The concern: Could a church-related
institution, such as a college, lose its tax exemption for refusing to give
equal treatment to same-sex couples?
The precedent would be the case of
Bob Jones University in South Carolina, which lost its tax exemption because
its official policy was to expel anyone who dated a person of another race. The
Nixon administration first threatened to take away the school’s tax exemption
in 1970. The IRS didn’t actually act until January 1976. The Supreme Court
finally ruled on the case in 1983, which was 16 years after the court in Loving
vs. Virginia struck down laws against interracial marriage.
But a minister
refusing to perform a same-sex marriage is a very different issue. The Supreme
Court’s ruling in Bob Jones emphasized that its ruling applied "only with
religious schools — not with churches or other purely religious
institutions." The First Amendment shields clergy members from government
interference with their religious duties.
Here’s what
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s opinion today said on that point:
“Finally, it
must be emphasized that religions, and those who adhere to religious doctrines,
may continue to advocate with utmost, sincere conviction that, by divine
precepts, same-sex marriage should not be condoned. The First Amendment ensures
that religious organizations and persons are given proper protection as they
seek to teach the principles that are so fulfilling and so central to their
lives and faiths, and to their own deep aspirations to continue the family
structure they have long revered.”
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-tax-exemptions-religious-20150626-story.html
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