Showing posts with label Pulpit Freedom Sunday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pulpit Freedom Sunday. Show all posts
Thursday, September 20, 2012
THE BLAZE: Pastors Unite Against IRS to Deliver ‘Pulpit Freedom Sunday’ Political Sermons (Poll)
Pastors Unite Against IRS to Deliver ‘Pulpit Freedom Sunday’ Political Sermons (Poll)
It’s that time of year, again. On October 7, 2012, hundreds of Christian pastors are going to be taking to their pulpits with overtly political messages in an effort to challenge a restrictive Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) tax code. The calculated event, “Pulpit Freedom Sunday,” is an annual initiative that seeks to rally believers against the government’s regulations on pastoral political endorsements.
The situation, as TheBlaze has noted in the past, is a complicated one. While there are certainly political issues that preachers can discuss from the pulpit, churches’ tax-exempt status prevents faith leaders, at least in part, from partisan preaching. Thus, if a church wants to enjoy tax benefits, it must comply.
THE HISTORY OF THE CONTROVERSIAL IRS CODE
Many pastors claim that the co-called “Johnson Amendment,” an IRS code that was added in 1954, causes such fear among some clergy that they end up erring on the side of not addressing controversial social and political issues (read a complete history of the controversial amendment here).
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/pastors-unite-against-irs-to-deliver-pulpit-freedom-sunday-political-sermons-poll/
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
SPEAK UP – PULPIT FREEDOM SUNDAY – OCTOBER 7, 2012
The future of religious freedom depends on a free pulpit to communicate fundamental, biblical principles to congregations across America. Join a growing movement of bold pastors preaching biblical Truth about candidates and elections from their pulpits on October 7, 2012
MORE: http://bwcentral.org/2012/09/speak-up-pulpit-freedom-sunday-october-7-2012/
Everyone,
You may already know about this, but if not, please take the time to check this important initiative out. The time has certainly come to take a stand for religious liberty. In fact, it's been a long time coming. For all those who remember growing up in a school system where prayer was said or at least religion was respected and the Ten Commandments were displayed to remind us of certain fundamental limits on conduct and remember the safe, moral, family-orientated communities that were conducive to raising families... For all those who remember the consequences in our communities when the great Wall of Separation was erected and the ACLU became a legal force for the promotion of evil and immorality.... For all who are becoming increasingly frustrated over the fact that we are going from a "Nation Under God" to a "Nation Under the Control of the Federal Government"........ For all who were offended to the core when the Democratic delegates took God out of its platform at its Convention in Charlotte and then, even after an ordained Methodist minister made a motion to re-insert the language, they fought that motion with everything they had, in full view of the American people. They denied God three times, and even after that third vote, they expressed their collective will - to remove God from their ideological and political platform. The moderator may have declared that the motion to re-insert "God" had passed, but all those who heard the vote know that that it did not. The boo's that emerged after the moderator's decision was what sealed it and will be seered in our collective conscience for a long time....... We need it will be fresh in our minds on November 6th.
For all those who are frustrated, disappointed, disillusioned, and personally affected by the growing trend on the part of government to show hostility to religion, to promote immorality, to force Americans to choose between duty to government and their rights of conscience, to ignore the rights of the unborn, to promote the misuse of a woman's body, to erode traditional marriage, to fight against the rights of parents to raise their children with religious and other productive values, and to support such groups as the ACLU and the Southern Poverty Law Center and other groups that want "an America without God," then please, please, please take the time to help promote this Pulpit Freedom Initiative.
Contact your churches and see if they will be participating. If they haven't heard of it, please send them the information below. Help spread the word !!
I've pasted the email that I sent the priests at my church. Please feel free to cut and paste and use as you will to send to the leaders of your church.
Father,
I wanted to send you this information about the Pulpit Freedom Initiative on October 7th. It is an Alliance Defense Fund initiative.
I support the NC Family Policy Council and the organization helps to promote the work of the ADF, which is the counter-part to the ACLU, the un-American organization that works tirelessly to erode religion and conservative institutions from all aspects of society. The ADF is a non-profit legal group which takes on cases to advocate for religious liberty, the rights of conscience, the rights of the unborn, and traditional marriage. I'm an attorney and I try to keep up with religion cases here in the state and I know the ADF has been fighting over the years to protect the right of faithful Americans to say a prayer in school and to open public meetings and hearings with a prayer that does not exclude Jesus Christ.
There is a lot of information on the website: http://www.speakupmovement.org/church/LearnMore/details/4702
http://blog.speakupmovement.org/church/tag/pulpit-initiative/ (Why the Pulpit Initiative Movement)
From the website: "The future of religious freedom depends on a free pulpit to communicate fundamental, biblical principles to congregations across America. Join a growing movement of bold pastors preaching biblical Truth about candidates and elections from their pulpits on October 7, 2012."
Alliance Defense Fund, overview - http://www.alliancedefendingfreedom.org/about Alliance Defense Fund, on their mission to promote religious liberty - http://www.alliancedefendingfreedom.org/issues/religious-liberty
MORE: http://bwcentral.org/2012/09/speak-up-pulpit-freedom-sunday-october-7-2012/
Everyone,
You may already know about this, but if not, please take the time to check this important initiative out. The time has certainly come to take a stand for religious liberty. In fact, it's been a long time coming. For all those who remember growing up in a school system where prayer was said or at least religion was respected and the Ten Commandments were displayed to remind us of certain fundamental limits on conduct and remember the safe, moral, family-orientated communities that were conducive to raising families... For all those who remember the consequences in our communities when the great Wall of Separation was erected and the ACLU became a legal force for the promotion of evil and immorality.... For all who are becoming increasingly frustrated over the fact that we are going from a "Nation Under God" to a "Nation Under the Control of the Federal Government"........ For all who were offended to the core when the Democratic delegates took God out of its platform at its Convention in Charlotte and then, even after an ordained Methodist minister made a motion to re-insert the language, they fought that motion with everything they had, in full view of the American people. They denied God three times, and even after that third vote, they expressed their collective will - to remove God from their ideological and political platform. The moderator may have declared that the motion to re-insert "God" had passed, but all those who heard the vote know that that it did not. The boo's that emerged after the moderator's decision was what sealed it and will be seered in our collective conscience for a long time....... We need it will be fresh in our minds on November 6th.
For all those who are frustrated, disappointed, disillusioned, and personally affected by the growing trend on the part of government to show hostility to religion, to promote immorality, to force Americans to choose between duty to government and their rights of conscience, to ignore the rights of the unborn, to promote the misuse of a woman's body, to erode traditional marriage, to fight against the rights of parents to raise their children with religious and other productive values, and to support such groups as the ACLU and the Southern Poverty Law Center and other groups that want "an America without God," then please, please, please take the time to help promote this Pulpit Freedom Initiative.
Contact your churches and see if they will be participating. If they haven't heard of it, please send them the information below. Help spread the word !!
I've pasted the email that I sent the priests at my church. Please feel free to cut and paste and use as you will to send to the leaders of your church.
Father,
I wanted to send you this information about the Pulpit Freedom Initiative on October 7th. It is an Alliance Defense Fund initiative.
I support the NC Family Policy Council and the organization helps to promote the work of the ADF, which is the counter-part to the ACLU, the un-American organization that works tirelessly to erode religion and conservative institutions from all aspects of society. The ADF is a non-profit legal group which takes on cases to advocate for religious liberty, the rights of conscience, the rights of the unborn, and traditional marriage. I'm an attorney and I try to keep up with religion cases here in the state and I know the ADF has been fighting over the years to protect the right of faithful Americans to say a prayer in school and to open public meetings and hearings with a prayer that does not exclude Jesus Christ.
There is a lot of information on the website: http://www.speakupmovement.org/church/LearnMore/details/4702
http://blog.speakupmovement.org/church/tag/pulpit-initiative/ (Why the Pulpit Initiative Movement)
From the website: "The future of religious freedom depends on a free pulpit to communicate fundamental, biblical principles to congregations across America. Join a growing movement of bold pastors preaching biblical Truth about candidates and elections from their pulpits on October 7, 2012."
Alliance Defense Fund, overview - http://www.alliancedefendingfreedom.org/about Alliance Defense Fund, on their mission to promote religious liberty - http://www.alliancedefendingfreedom.org/issues/religious-liberty
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Hundreds of Pastors to IRS: We Must Obey God, Not State
Just the name Internal Revenue Service can strike fear in the hearts of consumers, business owners and business operations volunteers for churches alike. But this weekend, pastors have the opportunity to thumb their noses at the federal agency – and have the weight of one of the largest Christian and human rights defense teams at their backs.
It’s the weekend for the Alliance Defense Fund’s annual Pulpit Freedom Sunday, on Oct. 2.
That’s the Sunday each year when pastors are encouraged to “present biblical perspectives on the positions of electoral candidates” to “exercise their constitutionally protected right to free religious expression.”
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=350641
It’s the weekend for the Alliance Defense Fund’s annual Pulpit Freedom Sunday, on Oct. 2.
That’s the Sunday each year when pastors are encouraged to “present biblical perspectives on the positions of electoral candidates” to “exercise their constitutionally protected right to free religious expression.”
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=350641
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