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Moment, and swept into that 501c3 category, which happens to be churches. for 58 years, the attempt has been to get that law challenged in court because its believed its unconstitutional. thats precisely what the pulpit freedom sunday movement is all about. pastors can legally say what we want, and we record our sermons, mail them to the irs, and say sue us because were standing on the constitution and on the first amendment. a preacher doesnt have to preach about those items if he doesnt want t...

Corporation? thats not an option. nobody wants their church to be a for profit corporation. what are the options? we contend -- and i say we, thats 2,200 attorneys of the alliance defending freedom -- claim the constitution already gives us complete freedom in the first amendment for what we want. congress shall make no law pertaining to. so we have the right to say anything we want about any topic. a pastor could endorse or decline a candidate from the pulpit legally via the first amendment, un...

Moment, and swept into that 501c3 category, which happens to be churches. for 58 years, the attempt has been to get that law challenged in court because its believed its unconstitutional. thats precisely what the pulpit freedom sunday movement is all about. pastors can legally say what we want, and we record our sermons, mail them to the irs, and say sue us because were standing on the constitution and on the first amendment. a preacher doesnt have to preach about those items if he doesnt want t...

Moment, and swept into that 501c3 category, which happens to be churches. for 58 years, the attempt has been to get that law challenged in court because its believed its unconstitutional. thats precisely what the pulpit freedom sunday movement is all about. pastors can legally say what we want, and we record our sermons, mail them to the irs, and say sue us because were standing on the constitution and on the first amendment. a preacher doesnt have to preach about those items if he doesnt want t...

Corporation? thats not an option. nobody wants their church to be a for profit corporation. what are the options? we contend -- and i say we, thats 2,200 attorneys of the alliance defending freedom -- claim the constitution already gives us complete freedom in the first amendment for what we want. congress shall make no law pertaining to. so we have the right to say anything we want about any topic. a pastor could endorse or decline a candidate from the pulpit legally via the first amendment, un...

And in fact, the preachers taking part in the pulpit freedom sunday are saying bring it on. they are challenging the irs to charge them with violating their tax exempt status as a religious institution. pastors say that churches belong on the front line of americas political frontier. >> to silence the pulpits means were abandoning our call to be the moral voice of society. were getting science be there, political leaders be there, no. its not going to be the science of the lambs anymore. >> the...

I.r.s. to charge them with violating their tax, sherman status as a religious institutions. pastors say churches belong at front line of americas political frontier. >> to silence the pulpits mean we are abandoning the call to te the moral voice of society. it will not be silence of the lambs. >> this is a challenge to the 1954 johnson amendment preventing nonprofit charities and churches from endorsing or supporting political candidates and was added to the tax code by senator johnson at the ti...

Tonight. the real battle in our nation is not a political one, but a spiritual one. the pastors have to defy some rules by regulators when the first amendment states that congress isfore bidden to pass a law that would prefer one form of religious to another or prohibit anyone from freely exercising his or her faith much less the freedom to assembly. and israel stands virtually alone to fight for its existence because of the hate directed toward radical muslim extremists who think may be doing g...

Really need to search your heart. you now, and saying, do you want another four years of a man, not the-- forget about party politics, do you want another man for four years, who has not had the experience to govern these four years to govern another four years and i think if you look in your heart, youll realize thats not the one-- >> if theres an important big issue that you feel overshadows everything else in in election, as to why we should or shouldnt vote for barack obama, tell us what it ...

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