we'll talk about another issue that's incredibly annoying and and disturbing
we know
that many churches willis
toeing the line very very
uh... let's say they've blurred the line between making political endorsement and
not which is a prerequisite for maintaining tax-exempt status well
here's what happened
mega church pastor
skyline church pastor i should say specifically jin garlic told his
congregation
that he is going to endorse jesus
he's encouraging you
to vote
romney here's what he had to say take a listen to endorse jesus
uses heard
usually
you know i could get your lowest looked like a little bit of an adjustment here
just so we can make sure we get everything a hundred percent rate for
people so they can hear what's going on please
let's get that video started up here we go
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not a lot of here
stop
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all right so that that's political for served at the looting to a lot of
political policy
but it's not really talking about candidates
but then he does and here's where he goes on to talk about never on
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expected or
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this is where problem
and
yet yet we know about that so this was part of a uh... a date called pulpit
freedom sunday
which is organized by the conservative christian groups alliance defending
freedom and basically what they want lewis is very simple they want to be
able to endorse candidates from the pulpit this should
quoted is this a absolutely should result
in the loss of tax-exempt status back when we were talking about proposition
eight
we heard allot eclipse from from churches advocating going one way or
another in people said listen by the letter of the law
they're really talking about a issued or not endorsing a particular political
candidate
this case is very clear and if you go back and read a transcript of what this
guy says some people might make the argument
he's actually saying i'm telling you i'm voting for romney but i i can't tell you
to vote for i mean you have to decide
the thing is
this is not
legal language the question is can the case reasonably be made that an
endorsement of a political candidate was made there
and what's the answer
can you go church burned church
uh... in terms of tax-exempt status i mean obviously
there's never going to be
uh... fall
hi taxation of repeat
christian church catholic church and that the think the catholic church i
think is different from a lot of these individual protestant church rise and
then there may be a different answer i don't know if legally each individual
catholic church ureach dioceses considered its own non-profit an idiot
has its own non-profit status
i would tend to tend to think yes but let's forget about the catholic church
for a second these protestant churches are often unaffiliated beyond their
their immediate area and individually can have their tax-exempt status remove
no question about it
you have to your magic dot how much you government income that would be all
these
psa mega churches the the real estate taxes would be incredible you know what
i would love to c_n_n_ alesis of what would be the effect on the economy and
on the debt
if churches
we no longer had tax-exempt status even dot not all churches
just all these ones that are advocating for for the first one is worried that
the pastors are driving ben please
the other question by the way is it's amazing
all these evangelicals are now supporting the mormon instead of the
christian
after years of talking about mormon is in the call
it's amazing
it really is incredible
it's uh...
it's always incredible and david aperture