Hell, Yes, We’re Going to Take Your Churches (and Your Other Non-Profits, Too)
14th October 2019
Mark Krikorian responds to Bevo Beto O’Rourke.
Robert Francis O’Rourke’s pledge last week to end the tax exemption for churches that don’t embrace same-sex marriage isn’t just the cry for attention of an also-ran. As the editors noted on Friday, several of his fellow presidential candidates have co-sponsored legislation that would limit religious liberty. (Pete Buttigieg did say on Sunday that he opposed O’Rourke’s proposal, though his comments seemed to suggest that the intersectional pickle of stripping mosques of their tax-exemption was the real problem.)
But the left’s totalitarian goals aren’t confined to religious institutions. Just last month the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing to make the case for stripping the non-profit tax status of organizations labeled as “hate groups” by the disgraced Southern Poverty Law Center. These groups include not just those with a religious orientation, like the Family Research Council and the American Family Association, but also secular groups like the Center for Security Policy, the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and the Center for Immigration Studies (which I head). You can watch the September hearing here, including the tutorial by the sole Republican witness, law professor Eugene Volokh, on the bedrock constitutional principle of viewpoint neutrality: “There is no constitutional right to a tax exemption, but there is a constitutional right not to be discriminated [against] based on viewpoint in the grant or denial of a tax exemption.”
October 14th, 2019 at 11:55
“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people”. (Karl Marx)
Religion is not compatible with socialism.
“If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.” (Stalin)
Private ownership of firearms is not compatible with socialism.
Robert Francis O’Roark’s speeches on firearms and now religion, as well as those of most of the current Dem contenders, make perfect sense if you change the word “Democrat” to “Communist”.
Why would they want to turn this country into another commie mess? Because they fully expect to be in charge. Live is pretty good if you are Stalin; it only sucks if you are one of the minions.