Warroad Community Church & Minnesota pastor Gus Booth is the latest news regarding this matter as reported on drudgereport, abc, etc. Booth addressed the members of his Warroad Community Church one Sunday in May and told them, “If you are a Christian, you cannot support a candidate like Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton for president,” he very much knew he was violating the law. He even wrote a letter to the IRS explaining what he had said and challenging the tax collection agency to do something about it. Churches and other non-profit groups like charities and universities do not have to pay taxes. That exemption, however, comes with a price. Churches, and by extension the pastors who serve them in an official capacity, are not allowed to endorse or oppose political candidates. Booth, 34, is one of several religious leaders who this year hope to challenge federal law by flouting the regulations about endorsing candidates from the pulpit a move that could potentially cost them their tax-exempt status, creating financial ruin for many congregations. The separation of church and state may be one of our democracy’s most vaunted values, but its enforcement falls to one of our government’s most derided institutions — the IRS. Neither Obama on TV nor Reverend Wright in the pulpit will tell you this information. They’re too phat and rich from the Washington DC policy. Pastor Greg Dixon delivers this much needed modern-day sermon about the relationship of politics in Americas’ churches. 501 c 3 Ron Paul – the only Congressman to stand up against the IRS as Federal Marshals seized the Indianapolis Baptist Temple on February 13, 2001 www.freedomsphoenix.com
Christians in America need to stand up and defend our rights and our laws. Be feed spiritually. Have an informed world view and take action!
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The 1st Amendment protects the church from being subject to government regulation and taxation. Moreover, even Form 1023, which is the government application form (i.e. contract) for tax exempt recognition, clearly and explicitly states that churches are already considered and recognized as tax exempt even if they do not file Form 1023.
Out of all five of these videos, I have not heard not one thing that I didn’t agree with, or that was offensive. That is until just about the very end of this one. I didn’t know Pastor Dixon was an advocate of miscegenation ? But evidently he is ! Oh well, he’s only human and a sinner just like the rest of us. Nobody’s perfect. I personally agree that people should marry within their own race. But not because there is any alleged biblical commandment to do so. But rather for the children’s sake.
There will never be a Pastor anyone agrees with 100% Brother, but praise God he has done amazing things with Dr. Dixon and his son, Pastor Greg A. Dixon, since the unlawful seizure of the Indianapolis Baptist Temple property. They are now in a much better building and is still preaching Bible truth!
Actually, Brother, I think that you misunderstood what Dr. Dixon was saying. He said that in order to qualify for the 501(c)(3) status you MUST promote the “mongrelization” of the races. He was not saying that he DID support that.
Fair enough. I guess I did take it the wrong way. But the reason I did was because if that’s what a 501(c)(3) church must do, and he doesn’t want to be one, then I took that to mean that he was in favor of miscegenation. Thanks for pointing out my misinterpretation.
The only part I disagree with is the issue on race. I believe that any congregation has the right to include whom they wish, however, for somebody who is a “man of God” to use terms such as “mongrelization” just indicates that even the best of God’s men still pick and choose what they wish to believe, and still will adhere to the traditions of men.
Typical fundamentalist.
Well, at least he came out of the gov’t regulation system.
Atypical fundamentalist.