Just to be clear. Churches always had the right to say anything political that they wanted too, it would just put their charitable and tax-exempt status in jeopardy.
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Religious Liberty EO
by Richard Oliver inwhat does everyone think of the new executive order on religious liberty?
this would include a weakening of the johnson amendment so churches will be freer to either contribute to political campaigns and/or promote a candidate from the pulpit.
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Richard Oliver
A lot of the items that got repealed will actually just now vary based on what state you reside in. For instance, the cost of coverage, if you have preexisting conditions, will be now determined if your state Insurance Commissioner wants to create and enforce a rule that requires insurance companies in that state to cover all pre-existing conditions at no extra cost.
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Religious Liberty EO
by Richard Oliver inwhat does everyone think of the new executive order on religious liberty?
this would include a weakening of the johnson amendment so churches will be freer to either contribute to political campaigns and/or promote a candidate from the pulpit.
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Just to be clear. The President can't revoke the Johnson Amendment as it was passed by Congress, all he has the power to do is instruct the IRS not to enforce certain aspects of the law, like how he did with the individual mandate of the AHCA, Obamacare, he can change his mind at anytime and any future President can instruct the IRS to start to enforce it again.
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Religious Liberty EO
by Richard Oliver inwhat does everyone think of the new executive order on religious liberty?
this would include a weakening of the johnson amendment so churches will be freer to either contribute to political campaigns and/or promote a candidate from the pulpit.
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What does everyone think of the new Executive Order on Religious Liberty? This would include a weakening of the Johnson Amendment so churches will be freer to either contribute to political campaigns and/or promote a candidate from the pulpit.
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Richard Oliver
If it is a spending bill it would need 60 in the Senate.
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Great article by Trey Bundy - Reporter for REVEAL
by Tallon ingreat article by trey bundy on the recent conference held in london.. https://www.revealnews.org/blog/reveal-event-aims-to-pry-lose-documents-in-jehovahs-witness-cover-up/.
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Richard Oliver
I can point to factual information wrong with the reveal article just in the first two paragraphs.
“There’s no question whether Jehovah’s Witnesses policies direct elders to keep child abuse secret from police. They do.”
During the ARC hearing this year the Australian Branch Representatives highlighted at least 6 instances since the last hearing where elders confirmed that the police was informed about reports of both historic child abuse that came to light and initial instances of child abuse. Even in the Conti case when Kendrick abused his step daughter, it is in the public record that the elders did not stop the wife and step daughter from reporting the crime and did not hinder any kind of prosecution against him.
“Or that Jehovah’s Witnesses leaders have violated court orders to hand it over.”
While yes Watchtower did not turn over the database files in the Lopez case initially following the appeal where the appeals court said that in Calfiornia even if evidence may not be admissible it is still discoverable information, Watchtower did turn over the information. The current issue is how much is Watchtower able to redact the information because there are concerns over third party privacy and the requirements of different jurisdictions and even times when the crime was committed, and so Watchtower is saying that it is not up to a superior court judge to decide which laws of other states are valid in a California case. Mr Zalkin in the Lopez case when it was remanded asked for sanctions against Watchtower for not turning over the database to him, but it came out later that Watchtower was ready to turn over the database when his client agreed to a protective order so the judge refused to hear a sanctions motion till the protective order hearing was completed.
Also the simple fact that the ARC received a copy of the Australian database proves that Watchtower will turn over that database when prescribed to do so by law.
“And why, even in the face of lawsuits and multimillion-dollar court judgments, do leaders refuse to change their policies in any significant way?”
This is a matter of opinion. England’s Charity Commission has determined that Watchtower has made some significant changes to their policy that is why they negotiated so that Watchtower of Britian would stop the appeal in their action. Also the August 1, 2016 policy letter made changes that everyone is calling for, at least in part, that regardless of if there are two witnesses or not, if the law requires that the abuse be reported it will be reported.
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2017 JW Conventions
by Christian Gutierrez inhey guys!
are there less assemblies in your country or area this year?
i'm noticing trends that they are becoming fewer and fewer.
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Richard Oliver
Steve2:
Are there less assemblies in your country or area this year?
It is the number of actual events not the number of people attending the event.
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2017 JW Conventions
by Christian Gutierrez inhey guys!
are there less assemblies in your country or area this year?
i'm noticing trends that they are becoming fewer and fewer.
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Richard Oliver
A lot of the requirements now for how many people a venue can hold is how well people can see the monitors. if you can't see the monitor then most of the convention is lost. They are increasing the number of dates and sites but reducing the number of people at each convention.
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Soon will be no choice but to invade North Korea.
by Witness 007 inthere is no way in hell that these brainwashed fools will cease making nukes.
their doctrines are based on "death to america"..."never surrender" they are much more messed up then iran!
war will be the final solution..
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Richard Oliver
The truly scary thing that experts are talking about is not that NK will strike first because even though the dictator is crazy he wants to live and he knows the US would just wipe him off the face of the earth. But the scary part is that the NK will sell the nuclear technology to terrorists or other groups that aren't so pragmatic
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We're going to impeach Trump . . . and make Mexico pay for it!
by Coded Logic ini have little doubt articles of impeachment will be drawn up on trump within the next year or so.
my only question at this point is what are they going to get him for?.
collusion with a foreign government to subvert an election?.
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Richard Oliver
Also, many of people's fears that Trump would just steam roll over congress or the courts has come to not happen. Trump has come to learn that being president is being a dictator that his power is restrained. He may not handle the public part of him being restrained in the most adult way, but he does accept that his power is restrained. He can spout off about Congress can't pass a repeal of the ACA or say he wants to break up the 9th Circuit but the other branches are keeping him in check and he is staying within the powers given to him by the constitution.