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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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Or even the Church of Scientology!
And this is exactly why I don't think even this spineless Congress will go through with repealing the Johnson Amendment. They know there are more Religions that are against their Political Party then there are for them. Just like a Tariff on any nation in the world, the repeal of the Johnson Amendment won't happen.
If it does... Then God help us all.
I had a feeling that would happen, but I didn't realize it was from his own staff. I thought Trump would throw a hissy fit and ban the Uber CEO himself.
edited 2nd Feb '17 2:39:05 PM by DingoWalley1
I'm horrified at the whole removing the restriction on churches endorsing politicians thing, and laughing at the whole Breitbart situation. They're probably already crying censorship, except there's nothing in the first amendment that requires businesses to keep doing business with you once a contract runs out. And there's certainly nothing it that can keep customers from telling businesses their opinions. (I'm assuming this is largely in response to customer criticism.)
150 Evangelical Christians, including Evangelical Leader Ann Voskamp and Obama's Faith Adviser Michael Wear, protest Refugee Ban during Prayer Breakfast
. Now most of those protesters are D.C. Evangelicals, but I think that's a good sign regardless.
copypasting from a friend on Facebook:
The Senate Committee on Homeland Security is taking calls about Bannon's appointment to the NSC. You can call: 202-224-4751 — please spread the word by cutting and pasting.
Remember: this is the man who literally wrote white supremacist propaganda on Breitbart, he's said heinous things about women, the Muslim community, the LGBT community, Jews, and plenty others. So if you want to make the US a little less terrible, make that damn call.
I'm hearing Bob Iger is dropping out of Trump's CEO Business meeting. I don't have any proof as of right now, though.
I'm a little worried that if Businesses keep leaving the meeting, then only Conservative Businesses will be there, and they'll basically kiss Trump's ass and Trump will spiral further into his Delusions. We need some Liberal Businesses to be going to this meeting to tell Trump what he's doing is Bad for Business and Bad for America.
I probably wouldn't be too opposed to modifying the Johnson Amendment so church leaders are a little more able to discuss the intersections between religion and politics and still be in compliance with the letter of the law. I've never even heard of a church being prosecuted for doing so, but I dislike the idea of selectively enforcing laws and prefer that such laws be modified or abolished outright.
What I absolutely do not want to see is Churches being permitted to openly campaign for a candidate. Either by directly funneling money to a political campaign, or by using church resources to run a campaign.
If churches want to participate in politics, they need to no longer be tax-exempt. Simple. They want special privilege and no penalties for it.
edited 2nd Feb '17 4:00:00 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Oh we get them all the time. They're probably from years ago honestly. We catch some of theirs, they catch some of ours. We quietly trade them back. No big deal.
Or it wasn't until this election and we realized that the Russians are genuinely going for the throat and not just doing the normal Cold War dance.
Oh really when?Except they are perfectly able to discuss religion and politics and religion having influence through the religious beliefs of the politician in office is also legal, what the J.A. forbids is having religious institutions openly supporting or endorsing candidates.
And that is what the Johnson Amendment is all about.
Inter arma enim silent leges
Sounds like this Senator, Thom Tillis, either sees the writing on the wall (North Carolina is going to be Blue for decades) or isn't liking the direction the Party is going.
I say North Carolina citizens should really try to get him to shoot down DeVos. If we get him, then Trump will have to pick someone who doesn't want to destroy Public Education (or he'll pick someone worse, but DeVos is already bad).

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has removed himself from Trump's economic advisory board after strong criticism from staff and the public.
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."