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Title: Legal Group Tells IRS to Back Off Intimidating Churches
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URL Source: http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/11/292006e.asp
Published: Dec 1, 2006
Author: Jeff Johnson
Post Date: 2006-12-01 10:47:04 by richard9151
Keywords: None
Views: 258
Comments: 7

Let me see...... First, these so-called churches incorporate under the rules of the state (for rax deductability of YOUR donations, supposedly but that has nothing to do with it), then they REQUIRE that all their ministers accept licensure from the state to preach the word of god (Mammon), and these fine churches REFUSE to preform ANY marriage without a marriage license issued by the state. Then, they complain about what they are told they can and can not preach?! I wonder, do any of these people understand contracts or not?!

Legal Group Tells IRS to Back Off Intimidating Churches

By Jeff Johnson

November 29, 2006

(AgapePress) - A religious liberties group says it has had enough of the Internal Revenue Service bullying pastors, and wants those pastors and churches to know that the U.S. Constitution trumps IRS regulations about what can and can't be said from the pulpit.

The Washington, DC-based Becket Fund for Religious Liberty says the First Amendment -- which forbids the government from prohibiting free speech or establishing an official religion -- take precedence over regulations established by the IRS concerning political speech from the pulpit of a house of worship. Anthony Picarello, vice president and general counsel for the Becket Fund, says the first mistake most churches make when they are confronted with an IRS investigation is keeping quiet about it. He recommends they go public.

"Make sure that the world knows about what's going on," he suggests. "I think that's one of the best approaches that a church can take when it's confronted with this sort of investigation." The attorney believes the federal agency does not have the resources to fight drawn-out battles against churches and cannot afford the kind of negative publicity such cases generate.

Picarello says groups like Americans United for Separation of Church and State frequently file complaints against churches when their pastors address politics from the pulpit. Those churches, he says, should call his group.

"What we've taken a stand on is the ability of any minister of any faith to preach on any topic -- political or otherwise, short of an incitement to violence -- from the pulpit," he explains. "That is precisely the kind of freedom that the First Amendment protects."

The Becket Fund spokesman says if the IRS pursues penalizing churches, synagogues, or mosques for what their ministers say from the pulpit, "then the IRS is going to have a fight on its hands." He says his firm will defend any pastor's statement from the pulpit that does not involve an incitement to commit violence.


Jeff Johnson, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.

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Let me see...... First, these so-called churches incorporate under the rules of the state (for rax deductability of YOUR donations, supposedly but that has nothing to do with it), then they REQUIRE that all their ministers accept licensure from the state to preach the word of god (Mammon), and these fine churches REFUSE to preform ANY marriage without a marriage license issued by the state. Then, they complain about what they are told they can and can not preach?!

The power to tax is the power to destroy. Forget the IRS for a moment. The PROPERTY taxes in some areas is enough to kill some small churches. Nevertheless, the IRS is the appointed antichrist Jew tool to destroy Christianity in America. It doesn't matter WHAT the churches do.....the intent is, and always has been, TO DESTROY THE CHURCH IN AMERICA! Ever read Psalm 2?

".....Any religious organization, including a church, must satisfy the statutory requirements to be exempt under IRC 501(c)(3). (3.6.6.1) Thus, the First Amendment does not prevent the government from requiring compliance with general laws designed to effectuate an important governmental policy or objective even though compliance may be contrary to an individual's sincerely- held religious beliefs. Full text version.

The Church at Salem has been seized! March 24, 2005

On Thursday, March 24, 2005, Pastor William Raymond of The Church at Salem, Salem, NJ, was arrested along with his wife during a meeting with the Mayor, the city attorney, and the Sheriff. The church and parsonage were seized by the Sheriff and State Police, acting under orders of city officials and with the authorization of Superior Court Judge Harold Johnson, Cumberland County, NJ. Pastor Raymond recounts, "I asked Dave Puma (city lawyer) and Earl Gage (mayor) to please show all of us in attendance the specific law, which supersedes their First Amendment, authorizing them to compel us to incorporated. Lawyer Puma told me, "well I don't have it with me here, but there is a law". . . . the mayor told us that because we would not incorporate, the city could not consider us to be a church!" Read more details in his diary entries.

IRS Seized Indianapolis Church Property

The IRS audited approximately 60 of those who serve as ministers of the church, and found that all had filed their own tax forms and paid all taxes due, including the total amount of their FICA taxes. Therefore, the taxes in question have already been paid. The IRS then sent half of the FICA taxes back, saying that the church should have collected and remitted them instead of the individuals who paid them. U.S. Attorney Robert Mitzler admitted that IBT owes no taxes, if we would only file for an exemption. This is a control issue, not a tax issue. If you are a 501(c)(3) church, you are a part of the National World Council of Churches....

Indianapolis Baptist Temple (IBT) will not bow to demands that they reject God!!! Photos Included:

The government, on the other hand, is telling Indianapolis Baptist Temple that they can worship God but they must first recognize that the Church is subject to governmental control........"

http://www.directoryupdat e.net/church501c3.html

"....The agency used to cut the balls off the church was none other than the IRS. According to this list, excerpted from a list of 30 requirements for 501(c) (3) Churches. Put out by the Department of Treasury Internal Revenue Service Pub 1826 (9-94) Cat. no. 21096G, churches must:

1. Be incorporated (BECOME A BUSINESS)

2. Have a recognized creed and "IRS approved form of worship."

3. Have "IRS approved code of doctrine".

4. Have ordained ministers educated in "state accredited colleges."

5. Be "neutral on political issues."

6. "Have tax exempt status issued by IRS."

7. Pastor must answer to the IRS as to "daily activities of the church."

8. The IRS must be privy to "all financial transactions" of the church.

9. Pastor must supply "names of all donors"- make books records available.

10. May only use "IRS approved" fundraising methods.

11. Pastor will be "called to account over any stand taken against the tax system."

12. Church "must advocate and support racial integration." (Multiculturalism)

13. May "not" engage in activities "opposing pornography."

14. May "not" support legislation saying "children belong to parents" rather than state."

15. May not form a Political Action Committee nor support legislation "opposing lotteries and gambling activity."

16. May not "oppose the public school system."

17. May "not publicly declare" we are to "obey God rather than the government."

(Those requirements only pertain to churches that want to escape paying taxes....... *****

So the government which stole our gold in 1933, led us into a world war, stated in the Communist Manifesto, and has now invaded our churches and now imposed illegal taxation and adopted the 10 Communist planks verbatim, as controls our religion, as of 1942. Our pastors, preachers, priests and rabbi answer to the government, not God. The obedience of the Christian Coalition to the Republican party, the refusal of the ministries to endorse a true leader or to expose political corruption is now explained.

Meanwhile, Bible reading Christian Home-Schoolers are prosecuted, their children taken away because the "government court" believes unauthorized, unsupervised reading of the Bible (or the Constitution) is somehow dangerous!..........."

http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/corruption_of_our_churches.h tm

(Those requirements only pertain to churches that want to escape paying taxes....... *****

It seems there is becoming no choice one way or the other.

"....The globalist rich elite control almost everything in America and much of the rest of the world. They control almost every aspect of our lives through taxes, the media, etc. But they are NOT content with controlling almost everything. No, they want it ALL! They want their global government, global financial system, and global religion. And there are only two real 'stumbling blocks' standing in the way of their grandiose plans: the American constitutional Republic with its well-armed population, and Christianity in America and the globalist rich elite plan on exterminating both!......."

http://www.cephas- h ttp://library.com/nwo/nwo_the_planned_destruction_of_christianity.html

".....Sadly, in most American Churches, Catholic and Protestant, the Priests and the Pastors have forgotten the importance of teaching and reminding Christians that Jew's by their very nature, due to their religion and upbringing, are virulently, relentlessly "specially anti-Christ." Tragically the American church has been intimidated into silence by the IRS. Conspiracy theorists allege that the IRS is a mere branch of the Federal Reserve System and is not a Federal agency at all. We have looked at the evidence and we have concluded that it does seem to indicate that the IRS is indeed a private non- governmental corporation. Jewish control of the Federal Reserve System is indisputable and if these theorists are correct then Jews also control the IRS. This needs to be investigated in depth to determine the truth.

Fear of the IRS is so pervasive in America today that churches are now afraid to even discuss, let alone protest, the blatantly anti-Christian activities that the American Jewish community now runs, funds and supports. Jews are giving millions of dollars to numerous maliciously anti-Christian organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union (A.C.L.U.), Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, People for the American Way (P.A.W.) and the National Organization of Women (N.O.W.). Conservative Christian churches now have good cause to be afraid of speaking about these things because the Jewish controlled American Bar Association is now giving seminars, teaching lawyers how to bring successful lawsuits against churches. In the next few years you will see Jewish owned law firms bringing many more patently ridiculous lawsuits against Christian churches in a further attempt to destroy them. Did you notice that both of President Clinton's appointments to the Supreme court were far left wing, God hating, pro-abortion, anti-Christ Jews? -32

Friends, it has gone so far now, that the Jews, in the "Holocaust Lobby" at the "Simon Wiesenthal Center" and the "ADL", intent on nurturing their posture as holocaust victims, have been successful in getting laws passed in the states of Florida and New Jersey, requiring children to take classes to study about the "Jewish Holocaust" and ignore the numerous Jewish inspired "Christian Holocausts." ................"

The Destruction of America!

http://www.apfn.org/apfn/destruc tion.htm

the gates of hell will not prevail........

Psa 2:1 ¶ Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

Psa 2:2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, [saying],

Psa 2:3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

Psa 2:4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

Psa 2:5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.

Psa 2:6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.........."

http://www.bluelet terbible.org/kjv/Psa/Psa002.html#top

cross at Cape Henry: http://www.nps.gov /archive/colo/capeheny/capeheny.html

also at the link [the Battle of the Eagles]:

"........the eventual surrender of Cornwallis to General Washington's Allied army of American and French troops on October 19, 1781. The victory at Yorktown, the final major battle of the Revolutionary War, would give birth to a new nation [Ezekiel 17:7-10/Matthew 15:13] initiated at Jamestown 174 years earlier...." [Ezekiel 17:1-6/Psalm 2:6/Micah 4:1]

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http://sweetliberty.org Cornwallis to Washington: A HOLY WAR WILL NOW BEGIN AGAINST AMERICA....IN 200 YEARS HER CHURCHES WILL BE USED TO TEACH THE JEWS' RELIGION.

Micah 4:13. Matthew 15:13. Rev. 20:7-10.......

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Tragically the American church has been intimidated into silence by the IRS. Conspiracy theorists allege that the IRS is a mere branch of the Federal Reserve System and is not a Federal agency at all. We have looked at the evidence and we have concluded that it does seem to indicate that the IRS is indeed a private non- governmental corporation. Jewish control of the Federal Reserve System is indisputable and if these theorists are correct then Jews also control the IRS.

correct. The Federal Reserve is a private, foreign, JEWISH corporation, as is the "United States". Note the "Star of David", over the Eagle on the $1 Bill.

The Federal Reserve Is A privately Owned Corporation About the Federal Reserve banks, Rep. McFadden said, "They are private credit ... Additionally, major corporations owned by FED shareholders are the source ... http://www.apfn.org/APFN/fed_res erve.htm

Links to EDUCATE yourself The United States Isn't a Country; It's a Corporation! ... OFF-SITE LINKS has relocated Click Here [ not wealth4freedom or worldnewsstand domains ] ... http://www.wealth4f reedom.com/truth/links2educate.htm

Meet The IRS, America's Enemy Within...Meet The IRS, Document # 100.0.3 # 06 of 37...............-Meet The IRS, America's Enemy From Within... ... http://www.apfn.net/Doc- 100_bankruptcy6.htm

Six-Pointed Star: Mark of the Beast The six-pointed star is a hexagram - a curse mark - no matter what name it may have: the Star of David, Solomon's Seal, Double Triangle, Shield of David, ... http://www.watch.pair.com/mark.html

Satan On Our Dollar

http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/Federal% 20Reserve% 20Scam/satan_on_our_dollar.htm

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Outstanding. Now, rather than letting this set here, would you please do me a big favor and post this info to the regular 4um? If you do not want to, give me permission and I will. But let me know if you want credit or not. Thanks again.

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