California Republican Representative Bill Thomas has thwarted an attempt to remove the political gag order on churches.
According to Bob Novak, Thomas is part of the secular Republican faction that despises the Christian element in the party and this move signals a coming “civil war” within the Republican party between the Christians (who have given the party the majorities it has needed to achieve parity with the Democrats) and the secularists.
READ IT.
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Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."
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While the internal machinations of the Republican Party don’t particularly interest me, I should note that I believe I read that more than a few religious organizations and churches opposed the proposal that Bob Nofacts accuses Congressman Thomas of gutting.
Curiously, the article doesn’t quote the language which, as I understand it, basically gives churches “three strikes” to “inadvertently” endorse a candidate before facing consequences with the I.R.S.
The churches who criticized the proposal rightly said that it essentially invited clergy to lie to avoid tax consequences.
Can someone give me a quick history lesson about U.S. politics…
How was it that conservative Protestant groups found themselves aligning with the GOP in the 70’s and 80’s?
Did these people vote Democrat before?
A lot of them did vote Democratic before, Billy. But the Seventies brought us the loss in Vietnam and Roe v. Wade among other things, and the Democrats became the party of “acid, amnesty and abortion.” Remember how Ronald Reagan was quoted as saying, “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party, it left me”?
It left a whole lot of people.