Will IRS Force Gay Marriage On Conservative Churches?
The cause of the immediate controversy is the inelegant answer which the Solicitor General offered to Justice Alito’s question about the potential application of Bob Jones to churches which decline to perform same-sex marriages. For the short-run, it is implausible that either the IRS or the Obama Administration will pursue this issue. For the long-run, those religious institutions which refuse to perform same-sex marriages are correct to assume that some same-sex marriage advocates will press for the loss of tax-exempt status of churches, synagogues and mosques which decline to recognize such marriages.
Kent Hovind Homecoming
I don’t doubt Hovind’s sincerity. Among the “authorities” he cites is Irwin Schiff. Doctor Ward Dean, who was kind of one of Hovind’s Pensacola anti-IRS battle buddies and a friend of Don Camacho from their service together in the Escambia Country Militia, continues to believe that the theories are correct even after serving a long prison sentence for following them.
Follow Me
Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.