[CS-FSLUG] OT: DOJ: Feds Can Tell Church Who Its Ministers Will Be

[Fred A. Miller]

On 10/13/2011 06:45 AM, Ed Hurst wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:15:58 -0500, Fred A. Miller
> <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
>
>
> "Justice Department asked the Supreme Court last week to give the
> federal government the power to tell a church who its ministers will be."
>
> I've worked with the LC-MS a bit. The very idea someone working with
> them would sue for a job is hard to imagine, simply on the basis of
> the unavoidable hard feelings. But, this is what comes with government
> approved incorporation. A tax break implies handing to the government
> a certain amount of power to intervene. We try to act like that's not
> so, that we can shield the churches, making it a one-way relationship
> as some of our founding fathers claimed, but that was actually a novel
> idea in their own times. For most of Christian history, it was either
> on or off, but government recognition has always meant government
> regulation. I hope
> the church wins this round, but it will hardly be the last time we see it.

I hope so as well, and also know it won't be the last. There was a
decision by "the Supreme's" years ago, and I'm sorry I can't tell you
when or give you a reference number, that stated that whatever the Fed.
Gov't spent money on, it had the right to control. That can be dangerous.

Fred

-- 
"Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it 
tougher for sober people to own cars." - Unknown

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