It is my opinion that preachers have the same right to free speech as everyone else. It is also my opinion that churches should pay taxes. If they give all their money away to charities their bill won't amount to much.

Property taxes would be murderous for many churches

property tax is a local issue

Truly, Verily, Amen.

Inaccurate. There is another portion of this. There's a percentage involved. It's been a while since I went to war over this clause but I think it's 20% of an orgs proceeds is the cutoff. Bring in 100k... use up to 20K on "lobbying." That's how PETA does it and all the rest. It's not 0% no can do.

Good call DS. How can it be so many one liners get memorized wrong? Who even started the line, "Separation of church and state?" The Anabaptists sorta had this theme but not in these words.
Another one;
"Never discuss religion and politics" is another one. What? Why? Church always being the first toss is rather interesting in these secular jingles.

so they shouldn't have helped the Colonists break from Britain?

Shouldn't have preached against slavery?

Shouldn't preach against killing babies?

what SHOULD they preach?

The should preach what's in the Bible.

Quakers are pretty spot on with their stance on politics even if it's to their detriment. Trust in God and his government to straighten things out and quit being presumptuous thinking we can do it.

Agree.

Agree.

Build more modest churches.

Yes it is

Alright well say goodbye to the old wooden churches on the hill overlooking the lake.

Some of y'all need to take a deep breath.

If a honest pastor preached a honest sermon about the election he/she would tell the flock to stay home on November 3 and, instead, pray for our country. Neither one of them deserve the JC stamp of approval.

I'm only voting for Trump because of 2A, taxes, oil and BLM. It stops there.

I have no idea what you are talking about but ok.

It is possibly more of a local thing but many of the old churches were built on hills over looking the lake. As the lakes have been built up and land prices have skyrocketed it would near impossible for the congregations of mostly older folks to pay the taxes on these plots anymore. I do not care to see these older people lose the churches they attended since they were kids, were they were married, were the had the funeral for their spouse.

I was under the impression that they DID preach against slavery...

Individually they were opposed to slavery based in their protestant work ethic. I don't believe they backed a specific candidate or party. I could very well be wrong.

K, what about the historical church that when first built was sitting in the sticks but now resides on the busiest intersection next to the interstate? Should they be forced off their land by the tax bill?

First Baptist Atlanta now sits in Dunwoody not Atlanta as they have moved five times in their history as the city and congestion if not taxes drove them north.

This term “ separation of church and state” is very much misquoted and misunderstood. Typical of today’s world, to hear something and run with it, requiring it to serve ones own purpose rather than actually learning the facts.

This term appears nowhere in the US Constitution or any other US document. It in fact was written in a personal letter by Patrick Henry stressing the fact that the government must never be allowed to interfere with the business of the church. Part of the fact that backs up the intent of this is, the letter was written on a Friday. That Sunday Mr Henry attended the largest Christian Church in the nation at the time, held where ???
The United States Capitol Building.
There are pages and pages of quotes by the founding fathers stressing the importance of Christian Values and God into what this country was built and based upon. Not to mention that the US Constitution and the Constitution of every single of the 50 states makes reference to God or the creator in the very first sentence.
Hillsdale College offers a host of free online courses on the Constitution, the Founding Fathers, etc, if anyone is interested in learning the facts about our country.

Sure. If it's members can't support it. That's not the responsibility of the entire community.