Jay, just a few days ago I was a participant in an event on "church politicking" at the National Press Club here in Washington. The event was reported by your friends over at the Christian Broadcasting Network. The focus of that afternoon was principally on whether pastors do or do not have the right to endorse candidates in sermons. The Tax Code suggests they do not--and I argued that was the correct position.
Today, the Washington Post reports that Liberty University, founded by the late Dr. Jerry Falwell, has just terminated the right of the Democratic student club to be recognized at the university. Effectively, Liberty has declared itself a Democratic Party-free zone. This is quite shocking, violating basic tenets of free speech, free association, and even religious liberty (can't you be a Democrat and religious?).
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Perhaps just as significantly, this seems to violate the principle that tax exempt universities cannot engage in partisan political activity. Americans United had filed a complaint with the IRS back in December of 2007 when the current Liberty chancellor, and son of the founder, sent out an email endorsement of then-candidate Mike Huckabee for the Republican presidential nomination. With the boot now given to the Democrats Club on campus, it looks like we have mounting evidence of a pattern of partisan, pro-Republican conduct.
I hope you will join me in calling this what it is: ill-advised, unlawful censorship of student speech. The university from whose law school your son graduated this year (congratulations there), Regent University, permits a Democrats club as it should and, indeed, I believe, must.
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“The Tax Code suggests they do not“--and Barry has the correct position because when a Evangelical Christian church of the Lord Jesus Christ take on the 501(c)(3) contract, they violate God’s Holy covenant, the Holy Bible which gives all born-again Christians...." Was posted by El
During a speech today on “cybersecurity,” "Obama told a whopper. He said the government’s effort to protect us from cyber bad guys “will not include monitoring private sector networks or Internet traffic. We will preserve and protect the personal privacy and civil liberties that we cherish as Americans.” Is it possible Obama has never heard of Mark Klein, the retired AT&T communications technician who said years ago that the company shunted all Internet traffic — including traffic from peering links connecting to other Internet backbone providers — to semantic traffic analyzers, installed in a secret room inside the AT&T central office on Folsom Street in San Francisco? There are similar rooms in Seattle, San Jose, Los Angeles and San Diego, all sucking up internet data. Please read the rest of this article at: http://www.infowars.com/cybersecurity-obamas-promise-to-trash-the-constitution/
Kurt Nimmo/Infowars/May 29, 2009
Boris was able to beat up Church-mouse because Church-mouse forgot that we are not supposed to put in trust in men, even the Founding Fathers! This is what the LORD says: "Cursed is the one who trusts in man…” Jeremiah 17:5
El,
Why then do you trust the men who wrote the Bible? Because of rumors other men have spread about them perhaps?
El, that sounds like dangerously un-American speech, which is of course your right, none the less frightening. Are you suggesting that there is a sovereign, theocratic "nation" of evangelical Christians living within our borders that is not subject to American law, simply because an ancient book says so? Perhaps if you could produce some evidence to substantiate anything written in that book (other than the inherent evidence that it contents are morally reprehensible) the rest of us will take you seriously.
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