Go ahead, DUmmies. Do your level best to get 501 c 3 organizations taxed. You'll make the whole county better that way.
OH I had a good answer to how Churches should stay to saving the soul of the individual----Then I realised that were it not for the Northern Churches getting involved with the Civil War, America would not have been what it is today.
Churches that went nuts during the McCarthy hearings and claiming foul. Darn a good member of the ministry went under to claims the preachers were commies as they defended the rights of Americans.
I am talking about the well educated Pastors that saw threats to the churches from the crazy witch hunters of that era looking for a commie under any rock. Our Church lost one in that time, I have no idea what he said but he was run out of town. Grandma cried for a couple weeks, I was too young to understand at that time.
What did he say, one has the right to the worship of their choice, one has the right to belong to any political party of their choice.
I think the biggest problem at that time was when Lucile Ball was dragged in as a communist. What a time that was I see from documentaries at that time. She at a teen signed a Communist membership to please her grandfather. The Goons found out and dragged her into televised hearings about anti-American hearings.
She had seen some of the brightest and best of the Movie industry destroyed for less then that. Artists, composers and writers destroyed. To be black listed was to destroy a carear in any form.
Good old Desi, a Cuban husband came before the Committee with fire in his eyes in defence of his wife and both their carears.
My Lucy is only Red by the color of her hair, and that comes from a bottle.
We have never in American History come so close to loosing our freedon of speech or expression , faced fear for speaking our mind as we did then.
This elected Senator while claiming he was protecting America from Communism was in fact trying to instill all the things Communism stood for. No freedom but to follow the party line.
So very close for America but we had One Senator send him down in a ball of flames when asked, Sir, have you no shame.
Hard time for America and the Churches, the Catholic church had little problem at that time the Mass was spoken in Latin, the Protestant Churches took the brunt some survived, some went under.
Strange as it is I today believe had McCarthy not picked on our Lucy, he may have well have caused great harm to America.--------We all at that time LOVED LUCY and in Church or out, this was his down fall.