Daniel Webster said that the power to tax is the power to destroy (1798 Daniel Webster bartleby.com).
I might add “to threaten, intimidate and control.” Democratic presidential hopefuls Beto O’Rourke (now defunct) and Cory Booker have suggested using the power to tax to force churches to go along with gay marriages (Beto O’Rourke’s church taxation proposal would hand Trump re-election, Washingtonpost.com 10-14-19) (Ben Shapiro Blasts Cory Booker for blasphemous remarks on religion, israelunwired.com 10-22-19). Democrats are real big on separation of church and state until the state or people who want to run the state start telling the church what to believe and do.
Alexander Hamilton said that the president of the United States “has no particle of spiritual jurisdiction,” while the king of Great Britain “is the supreme head and govenor of the national church!” (The Federalist Papers No. 69) Yet, O’Rourke and Booker advocate for religious discrimination if Christians and Jews don’t agree with them on homosexuality. (Muslims are not addressed, Islam and Homosexuality, thereligionofpeace.com)
Now who are the theocrats? Some claim that political advocacy voids a church’s tax exempt status. Oh, really? Democrats didn’t seem to believe this when ministers like the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. meddled in politics by advocating civil rights when segregation was the law.
Democrats didn’t mind when churches, priests and ministers opposed our government’s involvement in the Vietnam War. They don’t object to ‘theocratic law’s against murder, robbery and perjury (Ex. 20:13-16).
I guess Democrats consider adultery a sin or a crime only if Republicans commit it. Only when churches opposed liberal policies like legalizing abortion and gay marriage do Democrats scream “separation of church and state” and threaten to use taxation as a fine for political activism (“The 15 Biggest Lies in Politics” by Major Garrett, chap. 3). Fellow Christians, when election time comes around, remember which political party wants to use taxes as a club to force you to agree with them.
