Neighborhood Ministries

Although President Obama toted his church connection during his election campaign, he showed nothing but contempt for the church while in office. He launched a continuous attack against the church. He pushed a widespread increase in laws aimed at trapping churches in violation of IRS rules. President Biden also has toted his church connection but continued the attacks against the church. While large churches can hire professional accountants and legal advisers to help them avoid the pitfalls, small churches cannot and must depend on volunteers who cannot keep up with the constant stream of new laws governing church accounting. An increasing number of pastors are being jailed and heavy fines levied against churches forcing them to close because of violations of IRS rules. In addition, the IRS deliberately held up applications from organizations seeking non-profit status to prevent them from speaking out before the 2012 election. The city of New York and others have declared that churches can no longer use public facilities for religious services under the pretext that it would give the appearance that the city endorses religion. The Supreme Court, packed with liberal judges following two appointments by President Obama upheld the New York City ban. In addition, the ACLU has pressured many schools and government facilities to deny churches use of their facilities by implying that it was illegal even though there was nothing in the law against it. Other schools and government facilities have taken it upon themselves to deny churches access to their facilities, under the pretext that it would be illegal to allow them to use the facilities. Such arguments do not hold any water. Many organizations routinely use public schools and other public facilities and nothing is ever said about the city endorsing those organizations. To deny churches use of public facilities simply because they are Christian is outright discrimination against Christians. Christians pay taxes that support those facilities like everyone else. Those churches were paying rental fees the same as everyone else so it was not a free service provided by the schools and the churches got no special treatment.