Heretic on the Hill: Dropping a Dime on Campaigning in Churches

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Church and state are becoming less and less separate in churches. Churches, other faith-based institutions, and in fact all nonprofit organizations are prohibited from participating in most political campaign activities but many churches are crossing the line or just ignoring this prohibition. The consequence should be losing their nonprofit status but the IRS has been …

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Heretic on the Hill: Religion Is The Opiate Of The Supreme Court

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In March the White House presented its proposed $773 billion for defense in 2023, a four percent increase. The top Senate Republican on defense spending immediately stated that the budget “woefully” underfunded defense given the state of the world and the effects of inflation and said “That budget will go nowhere as is.” We could …

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Heretic on the Hill: Defining Religious Freedom Down

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Senator Daniel Moynihan once wrote a scholarly paper in his spare time, the kind most Senators just don’t write, called “Defining Deviancy Down.” He was using the sociologist’s meaning of deviancy: different from societal norms. His point was that the nation had become so accustomed to gun violence that what was once front page news …

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Heretic on the Hill: Visas for Religious Workers — Who Thought This Was A Good Idea?

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What if you could start your own religion, get it sanctioned by the IRS, and bring some of your believers from overseas to work at your faith-based nonprofit? Well you can! There is a special visa program known as the R-1 Nonimmigrant Religious Workers Program.  “Noncitizens working in the United States temporarily as a minister …

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Heretic on the Hill: Religious Privilege is not Religious Freedom

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Viruses mutate for a living. They just keep producing new variants. So far we’ve had the original COVID (classic COVID?), the Delta Variant, and the Omicron Variant. Hospitals are overloaded again and there may be another serious variant sometime soon. The theory is that the problem goes away when enough people have had COVID and …

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Heretic on the Hill: National Religious Freedom Day 2022

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Sunday is National Religious Freedom Day. There’s a presidential statement as there has been annually since 1993, but officially it’s not really different from “National Cheeseburger Day” (September 18), just with more history and lately more controversy. January 16th was the day in 1786 that the Virginia General Assembly passed the Virginia Statute for Religious …

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