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American Fascism: Government Trying to Control Church Sermons

2052845_lowBy Selwyn Duke

When you hear about government controlling church sermons, you might assume that China or Cuba would be the scene of such tyranny. But now the United States is also, with Iowa state officials not only claiming the power to determine what is and isn’t a “religious purpose,” but also, shockingly, to control church sermons.

At issue is the Iowa Civil Rights Act and a state bureaucracy’s position that churches are, to use the tendentious designation conjured up by judges decades ago, “public accommodations.” This makes them subject to the same rules as businesses; meaning, they don’t get to determine who uses their own facilities, paid for with their own money. This also could have a bearing on sermons. As WND.com wroteTuesday, “The Iowa Civil Rights Act bans places of ‘public accommodation’ from expressing their views on human sexuality if they would ‘directly or indirectly’ make ‘persons of any particular … gender identity’ feel ‘unwelcome.’”

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3 responses to “American Fascism: Government Trying to Control Church Sermons”

  1. Ike Avatar
    Ike

    What did you expect? That the tyrant wanna-be’s who have taken control of the Federal government would recognize any limitation on the power they spent so much time and effort to usurp?? Give me three seconds, I want to put on my surprised face.

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  2. Robert Berger Avatar
    Robert Berger

    You idiot ! It’s the evangelical Christians and the GOP who are the real fascists . Nobody is trying to do this to pastors in America. If the religious right got its way it would turn America, the most religiously diverse nation in world history, int a totalitarian Christian theocracy and police state which would be no better than the Islamic Theocracies of the middle east . Most Christians in America aren’t this extreme, but the religious right, which is the Christian Taliban , IS . They’re far more dangerous to America than Iran to ISIOS because they’re right in our own backyard and have an appalling amount of support in GOP .

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  3. Kirk H Avatar
    Kirk H

    Who’s the real idiot here? America has been a predominantly Christian nation from birth, and we haven’t seen fascism become the norm. Not even close. And yes, they are trying to do this to pastors in America. http://time.com/3514166/houston-pastors-sermons-subpoenaed/
    Where is all of the Christian oppression you speak of? “…no better than the Islamic Theocracies of the middle east” You can’t be serious in making a moral equivalence between Sharia law which degrades and dehumanizes women, tortures and kills gays, and sanctions all manner of slavery and true oppression with the Judeo / Christian ethics and moral principles that are the foundation of our free and open society. Are you? If so, you sir are the idiot here.

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