I see that the Fish-Eaters wrote something called a “pastoral letter” telling their fellow-travelers that we shouldn’t be deporting illegal immigrants.
Of course, being the modern-day Catholic Church, they couldn’t do that without resorting to a big fat lie, i.e. that ICE is deporting people “indiscriminately”, which of course they aren’t. In fact, it’s amazing how precisely-targeted ICE deportations have become, going after the convicted criminals as a first priority. In this, they have been quite successful, ridding the country of a motley collection of rapists, thieves, murderers, drug-dealers and child-traffickers, to name but some of the more egregious criminal career choices. That along the way ICE has also scooped up some lower-level miscreants — illegal immigrants who’ve only committed that one crime — is not something to be deplored, despite the ecclesiastical wails of the Catholic bishops.
And it didn’t take long before there was an official response, delivered as it happened by a lifelong Catholic.
Glenn Reynolds is of the growing opinion that it’s time to abolish the tax-free status of all “nonprofit” organized institutions, and I’m very much in agreement. Given how much the various buffet options of Christianity have supported, encouraged and enabled the mass influx of illegal immigrants — Catholics, Lutherans, whatever — I wouldn’t have a single problem if Congress were to pass a law not only prosecuting such efforts, but fining the organizations with proportionate sums to compensate the states for the expenses of providing said illegal immigrants with education, housing and welfare. (California, New York, Illinois and those of that ilk would be welcome to turn down such penalty income, but I bet they wouldn’t.)
We’ll see how long the various churches would continue this nonsense as their bank accounts rapidly emptied.
Not even the Vatican is that wealthy.
Fish eaters, do you speak of the religious scum who launder money tax free and butt fuck underage alterboys or do you speak of the lesbians? Many gay priests who blend right in with the LGBTQ BBQ BLT 123 Plus but they are also pedofiles too.
# CHURCH IS A BUSINESS – THEY SELL AN INTANGIBLE PRODUCT CALLED BULLSHIT
# NOT TO SOUND LIKE A LIBERAL BUT TAX THE CHURCHES, MAKE THEM PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE
I’m thinking the $2.9 billion (with a fucking B – billion) in federal (stolen) taxpayer money given to catholic charities to help the immigrants might have influenced their position on illegal (as in against the fucking law) immigration.
Back about the time of Vatican II, (being well on my way to becoming a life-long smart*ss) I decided that the Church might try to guide me in religion, but for things political (or “civilian”) they needed to STFU and leave me alone. It’s worked out pretty well for me over the years. It may earn me a seat by the radiator in purgatory, but I’ll take my chances. And I don’t care if the Pope is a White Sox fan, that’s proof he doesn’t know everything.
The portion of the First Amendment that pertains is:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; ”
My understanding was that at the time it was written it was intended to prevent the new United States from having a state-based religion like England had at the time. In part this was to prevent religious tyranny, but also because there were so many religious sects here in the nascent US that picking one to establish would have been impossible and would have rapidly fractionated the country.
My lack of education in American history leaves me questioning when this morphed from when the US government was NOT allowed to make a law regarding “an establishment of religion” to laws that establish what the US government calls an official religion for purposes of tax exemption. How did this happen? How did selected organized religions suddenly become exempt from taxes, most especially income taxes and property taxes? How does the US government (through the IRS I presume) decide that THIS particular bunch of people constitute a tax-exempt group, but not this other? Why can’t I claim that the “religion” shared by myself and a few others isn’t legitimate, and that therefore our “house of worship” (my house and the land it sits on) shouldn’t be tax-exempt as well?
When I see various churches and religious organizations squatting their buildings and schools on the most valuable property in an area and then NOT paying property taxes on it I become irate. When I look at some of the so-called “christian” religions like Catholicism advocating and brainwashing for socialism and communism I want to know why MY tax dollars (the ones they collected in lieu of the ones they didn’t get from the churches) are paying for this collectivism.
So lets go back to the meaning of the Constitution and NOT have the government arbitrarily and capriciously deciding what is or is not “an establishment of religion”, and just tax them like they tax everybody else.
Of the faith-based (largely illegal) “immigrant” aid charities, the Catholic and Jewish organizations have BY FAR been the most successful at fleecing the American taxpayer, and since their books are more-or-less closed to public scrutiny, there’s almost no way to know where exactly the money actually went.
DOGE ought to claw back as much of those billions as it can; whether anyone there has the balls to do it is a question left as an exercise for the class. (Hint: Don’t hold your breath.)
Don’t even get me started on the Soros-funded NGOs . . .