Justice Sunday returns!
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August 5th, 2005 at 8:14 pm
Go to ACLU.org or AU.org and ask them to petition for the church hosting the event to lose its tax exempt status.
The only way to counter these fanatics is to hit them where they live. With churches its tax-exemption, with schools its accreditation. We have to demand that the agencies over them do their jobs.
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August 5th, 2005 at 8:35 pm
Yes, by all means ask your interest groups to pressure the government to shut down the speech you dislike.
THAT will bring Middle America around!
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August 6th, 2005 at 10:26 am
Why should political rallying be protected as if it were religious in the same way that, say, running a soup kitchen would be ? Demanding that politicking groups pay taxes is not “shutting them down,” Robert.
But you know that.
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August 6th, 2005 at 10:39 am
“Justice Sunday”? Sounds more like Extremist Sunday to me.
The lineup looks like a who’s who of Christian Extremists and Christofascists.
And the “judicial activism” that these Christian Extremists decry is nothing more than judicial review - the power Federal judges have to interpret the law and strike down unconstitutional laws passed by Christian Extremists in state legislatures and Congress. This has been the case since Marbury v. Madison, over 200 years ago.
Tom DeLay will provide lots of stability for his family when he’s in jail for accepting bribes and obstructing justice.
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August 6th, 2005 at 10:41 am
Oh, and alsis….it’s perfectly acceptable for tax-exempt organizations (501(c)4 organizations) to politic - it’s just that the contributions aren’t tax-deductible.
The Christian Extremists want to be 501(c)(3)s - they want to have their cake and eat it too.
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August 6th, 2005 at 11:53 am
Why should political rallying be protected as if it were religious in the same way that, say, running a soup kitchen would be ?
Because the rallying is in support of values that the religion endorses.
They aren’t campaigning for any specific candidate; that’s all that the law demands.
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August 6th, 2005 at 7:47 pm
I think they are absolutely right to be concerned about the attack of those of us who think we have a constitutional right not to be dictated to by them. History echos the constant struggle between those who wish to dominate and those who do not wish to be dominated. This is just another permutation of the same echo.
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August 7th, 2005 at 7:31 am
No, they’re just campaigning for any Supreme Court candidate Bush serves up– and there just happens to be one in particular at the moment whom they presumably don’t mention by hame, or mention only in passing. Talk about hair-splitting, Robert.
I wonder where all the cries for sensitivity to people of faith would go if, say, a candidate had a history of left-leaning rulings that he/she said were borne of his/her love of Liberation Theology ? Well, I can actually picture perfectly where they’d go, but no one, Democrat or Republican, would ever have the stones to nominate such a candidate. So I don’t suppose that it really matters.
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August 7th, 2005 at 9:10 pm
alsis, I agree with your basic statements, but I would point out the Democrats have been campaigning in Black Churches for 30 years. No one tells them how to vote, but there is a clear partisan message when Bill Clinton, John Kerry, or some other Democrat shows up at the local Black church during campaign season.
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August 7th, 2005 at 9:17 pm
Yeah, res. Again, I suppose it’s splitting hairs to wonder this aloud Yet, isn’t there a difference in a candidate –a specific candidate– treating a house of worship as one more whistle-stop and the house of worship turning that on its head ? That is, the churches aren’t hosting Roberts, whose not supposed to be running in the same sense that a Presidential candidate would be. They’re casting a wider net– just wide enough to avoid the acusation that they’re essentially campaigning or lobbying for one specific person.
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