Should churches, synagogues & mosques etc. be taxed?

Should churches, synagogues & mosques etc. be taxed?

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Good Luck said:
Free has many meanings, which must be derived from context.

With regard to the use of the word "free" in the 1st amendment, specifically in the phrase "prohibiting the free exercise thereof", the most obvious meaning of the word "free" means without (government) encumbrance or interference. There are those who maintain that taxation is a form of encumbrance.

However, the use of the word "free" in the 2nd Amendment obviously does not have the same connotation. In fact, the adjective is used in conjunction with the state - "free state" - whereas the word "free" in the 1st Amendment modifies the noun "expression" - an action of the people. That definitely gives it a different over-all meaning, and the conotation that taxation of the government being an encumbrance cannot be applied to "free state" as it can to "free expression of religion".
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Thanks for your response.

I wonder if "Dixie" agrees.
 
Dixie said:
Free does pertain to money, you've given us no logical reason to conclude that money should not be included. In fact, it flies in the face of reason and logic to presume "free" wouldn't include money. What are you smoking this morning?
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So, "Dixie", "free does pertain to money" in the First Amendment, yet "you've given us no logical reason to conclude that money should not be included. In fact, it flies in the face of reason and logic to presume "free" wouldn't include money" in the Second?
 
AssHatZombie said:
Sure that I'm white? Well im discriminated against due to being white. I must be white. Society says I'm white and bad.
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So you're not sure that you're pure; but you push for a white purity.
Doesn't that uncertainty, possibly suggest that you're just part of a mongeloid race?
 
USFREEDOM911 said:
Are you trying to suggest that you weren't the one who accused someone of trying to destroy "white purity"??
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White purity is not a racist concept. Just like it's not racist to suggest a dog is full blooded shnauzer.

Lo, the racism is in the ones who suggest white purity must be destroyed with intermarriage.
 
Dixie said:
Tax on religious institutions, is a defacto tax on the 1st Amendment. Congress shall make NO LAW prohibiting the free exercise of religion. The exercise is no longer "free" once it is taxed. It would be the equivalent of saying you must pay a tax in order to cast a vote.

I certainly hope, if and when this idea does come up, it is proposed by a Democrat, so the Republicans can reap the huge political rewards for the stupidity.
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What's prohibited?

We're talking about taxes.

Virginia churches aren't exempt.

Why aren't they running to the 1st Amendment?
 
AssHatZombie said:
White purity is not a racist concept. Just like it's not racist to suggest a dog is full blooded shnauzer.

Lo, the racism is in the ones who suggest white purity must be destroyed with intermarriage.
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I see you're getting your talking points from such sites like Stormfront and David Duke.
 
AssHatZombie said:
White purity is not a racist concept. Just like it's not racist to suggest a dog is full blooded shnauzer.

Lo, the racism is in the ones who suggest white purity must be destroyed with intermarriage.
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Isn't a shnauzer a German breed?

At least you're consistent.
 
Dixie said:
Tax on religious institutions, is a defacto tax on the 1st Amendment. Congress shall make NO LAW prohibiting the free exercise of religion. The exercise is no longer "free" once it is taxed. It would be the equivalent of saying you must pay a tax in order to cast a vote.

I certainly hope, if and when this idea does come up, it is proposed by a Democrat, so the Republicans can reap the huge political rewards for the stupidity.
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So, "free" means no taxes in the First Amendment?

What's "free" mean in the Second?
 
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