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Republicans Can't Handle the Truth

Discussion in 'Free-For-All Archives' started by JGrubbs, May 28, 2004.

  1. KenH

    KenH Well-Known Member

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    What are you talking about, CMG? :confused:
     
  2. KenH

    KenH Well-Known Member

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    It is not beside the point. I respect the federal constitution, CMG. I wish you did, too.
     
  3. The Galatian

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    The libertarian party exists only because the republicans no longer believe in the Constitution.
     
  4. Terry_Herrington

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    Compassionate conservetive!!! [​IMG] :rolleyes: [​IMG]

    If you don't want to hear people bash Bush, you will have to leave this board. :D
     
  5. Pastor Larry

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    Under the law, he didn't have that option. That was the problem. If the Bible had prohibited the payment of taxes, then he would have had a legitimate conflict that would have been a worthy stand. But since the Bible did not prohibit paying taxes, and required obedience to the government, he was in violation of God's word and therefore disobedient to God.
     
  6. JGrubbs

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    The following quotes are from IRS Publication 1828, "Tax Guide for Churches and Religious Organizations"

    "Unlike other exempt organizations or businesses, a church is not required to withhold income tax from the compensation that it pays to its duly ordained, commissioned, or licensed ministers for performing services in the exercise of their ministry."

    "The compensation that a church or religious organization pays to its ministers for performing services in the exercise of ministry is not subject to FICA taxes (Social Security and Medicare taxes)."
     
  7. Pennsylvania Jim

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    Somw "pastors" aren't worthy to shine the soles of Mr. Dixon's shoes.
     
  8. futurepresident

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    Bush is a lot better choice for president than Kerry. :D And people should not be picking apart the leadership of our country.
    Did you vote in the 2000 election?
     
  9. church mouse guy

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    Thank you again, Pastor Larry! Greg Dixon went to jail many times. His "church" building was finally seized by the US Marshall after the militia got tired of hanging around waiting for a gunfight and went back to southern Indiana.

    Greg Dixon refused to walk out and the taxpayers had to carry him out on a stretcher.

    After he lost his building, he demanded that the Indianapolis Public Schools let him use a high school auditorium for his services--so much for his high-minded refusal to have anything to do with the government or to take a government handout.

    As a preacher, he rambles on for hours, talking politics instead of religion. He stuck the taxpapers with a half million dollars of unpaid taxes and moved to Florida. His son now runs his local church.

    I remember one day after Thanksgiving, we were downtown having breakfast in the Bank One tower restaurant, and Greg Dixon had a small group of poorly clad teenagers out in very cold weather carrying signs in front of the US Courthouse about one of his cases in front of the federal judge. I felt so sorry for those teenagers because downtown was deserted, the weather was cold, and they had poor clothing for such cold weather. They looked as if they were too young to understand what they had been forced into doing on such a holiday. The people that I met who had belonged to the Baptist Temple at one time or another were petty, cold-hearted people that you wanted to run away from.

    At one time, Greg Dixon had a large congregation. At the end, he had a small group and hardly anyone had been with him very long. In the last twenty years, he has picketed everything downtown at one time or another. Indianapolis people put him in about the same class as another Indianapolis preacher named Jim Jones.
     
  10. Terry_Herrington

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    Bush is a lot better choice for president than Kerry. :D And people should not be picking apart the leadership of our country.
    Did you vote in the 2000 election?
    </font>[/QUOTE]Yes, I voted for Gore.
     
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