• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      Houston Second Baptist has been a hive of scum and villainy since as long as I can remember. Ed Young might as well be running a Super PAC.

      But I guess now they get to double-up on the tax benefits of being a church and explicitly organize their campaigns under the canopy of a charity organization.

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        Houston Second Baptist has been a hive of scum and villainy since as long as I can remember.

        So is Dallas First Baptist.

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    Thankfully their Christian morals will continue to keep sex traffickers and corrupt billionaires out of the White House… surely the good Lord will be pleased.

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    Sounds like they have enough money to start paying taxes. Or are we just gonna do tax-exempt donations to political parties in broad daylight now?

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      I’m ready for the Church of Satan Satanic Temple endorsement!

      edit: Thats the one i meant!

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        The Satanic Temple.

        The Church of Satan are the losers who follow Anton LeVay and pretend to do “sex magick.”

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      The first dictators went by terms with fewer negative comnotations. Kings, emperors, queens empresses. Many countries seem to even give their descendants a bit of a cultlike obsession. Yes, I’m referring to England. Hang at least a few of them, please.

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    With this IRS change why bother with SuperPACs anymore? Simply stand up your own church and get even greater benefits without any legal limitations on coordination with candidates that PACs have.

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    God/Jesus doesn’t even hang out in those buildings anymore. These people are at best White supremacist Shriners.

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    No different than what they’ve already been doing. Now it can just be done publicly to a larger audience. Imagine that mannequin Osteen starting a PAC and grifting off of that.