Restore the rights of clergy in America
03/21/05
The power to tax is the power to destroy. How did the power to destroy churches whose preachers tell their congregations the truth as they see it -- that some politicians are advancing God's Kingdom, while others are violating God's commandments -- end up in the hands of the Internal Revenue Service? Because LBJ put it there. He had not intended to, but in 1954, an election year, LBJ was bedeviled by tax-exempt groups who were pointing out the alleged communist connections of some Texas liberals. LBJ had inserted in the IRS code a penalty -- loss of tax exemption -- for any organization whose leaders endorsed or opposed the election of a politician. His amendment was not intended for churches, but it bound them just the same...
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43395
from WorldNetDaily, by Pat Buchanan
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
The power to tax is the power to destroy. How did the power to destroy churches whose preachers tell their congregations the truth as they see it -- that some politicians are advancing God's Kingdom, while others are violating God's commandments -- end up in the hands of the Internal Revenue Service? Because LBJ put it there. He had not intended to, but in 1954, an election year, LBJ was bedeviled by tax-exempt groups who were pointing out the alleged communist connections of some Texas liberals. LBJ had inserted in the IRS code a penalty -- loss of tax exemption -- for any organization whose leaders endorsed or opposed the election of a politician. His amendment was not intended for churches, but it bound them just the same...
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43395
from WorldNetDaily, by Pat Buchanan
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 21. Mär, 15:59
