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Now government wants to control tidiness of churches

By ADF Alliance Alert

Bob Unruh writes at WorldNetDaily: But the ADF said the trouble started because the church "treats seriously the God-given call to help the poor and disadvantaged?" "So this church opened its facilities to help those in need with food and a place to stay. On several occasions, this church opened its doors to people who lost their home, were currently homeless, or otherwise unable to find a place to live. This church provided food for those who were hungry. It had a closet where it kept food to give away to those in need. In essence, this church decided that merely talking about doing God's will was not going to cut it. It put its faith in action and actually used its facilities to carry out God?s command to care for the needy," the organization confirmed. "The city also made such illogical conclusions that while using a church room to talk about caring for the homeless would serve a religious purpose, actually caring for the homeless in that room would not serve a religious purpose," the ADF said. In its tax appeal for 2008, the ADF argues the church is entitled to the full benefit of tax exemptions for churches.

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on March 01, 2011 (boomark / email).