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…Ryan Goodwin, a mayoral candidate, who is both a real estate agent and an associate pastor at Mosaic Church.
“What I think we’re seeing is a fiction of the law,” Goodwin said. If the issue were to ever reach the U.S. Supreme Court, he said, “churches would have a voice and wouldn’t have to worry about anything like this.”
This is running into some dangerous territory with this thinking.
Enough with this bullshit. The fucking churches and their child rapist leaders have been neck deep in fascist politics since the days of Reconstruction. Who the fuck do you think made up the lynch mobs, but preachers and the fucking half-wit dupes in the pews? Time to tax the fucking churches and end this motherfucking charade. They want to play, then they have to pay.
John, you need to tell us how you really feel. Don’t mince words.
ETA. I agree, tax the churches.
"Of all bad men, religious bad men are the worst." – C.S. Lewis
TAX THE FUCK OUT OF THE CHURCHES.
Zappa
Where the heck is the orange former guy today? Is he in flight (haha) over the Atlantic somewhere? Will he make this Sunday deadline in Court? Anyone else notice a blackout of news regarding the rapist traitor in chief in the last 24 hours? The mxxxx-fxxxxx has disappeared, hasn’t he!!!
Now that would be a blessing!! Let it be so.
Abilene reader and voter here: all 3 candidates got whipped. Goodwin (mayor) got 23%
Sargent (a neighbor, of sorts) also got 23%
so IRS violator Beard had the best result, at 35%.
Churches are people, my friends!
$800 was all they could scrape together? Maybe we should start a Go Fund Me page for them.
Maybe not.
And this is a bad thing… because…?
I think his trump plane has been diverted. Blackout in effect.
So…not so blue and lonesome in the middle of Texas?
How so? I don’t think even this Supreme Court would buy into the “founded as a Xtian nation” fallacy, but I have no trouble believing at least Alito and Thomas would expand the Hobby Lobby doctrine and hold that the IRS regulation that prohibits nonprofit corporations, specifically churches of the right persuasion, from engaging in political activities was a violation of the free exercise clause.
ETA: Or is the Supreme Court’s dangerous thinking what you had in mind?
Tax the churches, and tax the 501c4 “social welfare nonprofits.” Enough already with the scofflaws.
Those sheep get shorn two or three times a week. Pastor pimps need their Escalades, ya know.
Well, prayer won’t buy you a ticket to heaven.
I want to know why this Goodwin thinks that the Johnson Amendment is fiction?