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Cross dressing Teachers in “Christian” Schools in Virginia? Questions Answered Regarding the Article “Liberty Counsel: New VA LGBTQ Bill Would Mean Baptist Schools Can’t Fire Cross-Dressing Teachers”

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Original Email with Questions

See also, RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS (APOSTASY), THE LGBTQ AGENDA (GROSS IMMORALITY), AND CIVIL GOVERNMENT TYRANNY

On Friday, January 31, 2020, 08:24:30 AM CST, ________________________________________  wrote:

https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2020/january/va-lgbtq-bill-would-mean-baptist-schools-can-still-hire-baptists-but-cross-dressing-teachers-cant-be-fired

Good day brother Finney, and may our Heavenly Father continue dispensing His grace and blessings upon you & the work of the BLC!

I sent the above news link, because this stuff taking place right now in Virginia. So I was wondering if this could potentially represent the “test case” circumstances for “churches” and/or “religious organizations,” about which you’d mentioned awhile ago re: a case of this nature eventually moving up the appellate ladder, to SCOTUS?

Though I do correctly realize [I hope], thanks to your instruction, that 501©(3) “religious schools” will have no choice but to comply [or else?], due to the Bob Jones University standard, i.e., “5. the organization’s purposes and activities may not be illegal or violate fundamental public policy,” stated in “God Betrayed” [chapter 4], Federal Control of Churches through 501(c)(3) Tax Exemption.

Your profoundly esteemed insight into this would be of inestimable value brother Finney – if you can ever find time to respond? As always, thanks so very much for all you’re doing for our “Great God and Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,” and His soon-coming Messianic Kingdom!

Gratefully,
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Note. Article from April 17, 2020: Virginia Passes Legislation Forcing Churches to Allow “Transgender” Males into Women’s Bathrooms (04720)(Of course, this will be contested in court. Regardless of the outcome of such contest(s), keep in mind that the established church (incorporated, 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(1)(A) churches have voluntarily given up much of their First Amendment protections and placed themselves under the 14th Amendment for many purposes. Churches who choose to remain under the First Amendment for all purposes are not subject to state legislation. Contact this Churches under Christ Ministry for more information.)

My Reply

On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 12:17 PM, Jerald Finney <jerald.finney@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

Dear Brother ___________________,

Thanks for sending the link.

It could be a test case should a Church School refuse to hire a homosexual. I would have to do a lot of research to develop all arguments I could come up with if representing such a School. As you know, I would not help most such schools or churches since most or all such churches and schools are a business more than a church. Most are incorporated, 501(c)(3) or 508(c)(1)(A) organizations.

As government created organizations, churches and “church schools” have agreed that their authority for many matters are the state government from whom they sought and received non-profit corporation status and the federal government from whom they sought and received tax exempt status. They name the name of God but deny the authority thereof. Most churches with church schools admit children of both lost and saved parents, many or most admit students whether their parents are church members or not, few enforce any Bible standards for the parents, etc. In short, the churches are not really close to the New Testament model for the local church. My experience is that the church school is necessary to the survival of the church. 

So these churches have already abandoned the Bible doctrine of separation by joining hands with the the state or the world in most of what they do. Yet, now they want to force separation in this one matter. They are hypocrites.

As you know, we have foreseen what was coming. I put this note in the first article I posted on the website in 2009,  The Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3) Exemption-Definition-Control Scheme (September 2009): 

  • “Note. The sodomites understand what 501(c)(3) for churches means, yet pastors and other Christians continue to ignore the issue because they, like lepers to whom the leprosy has spread to the head, have ‘their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: Who being past feeling have given themselves over to lasciciousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness’ (Ephesians 4.18-19).  Here is a link to a sodomite article on the issue: ‘Equality is what we’re all about in Maine” (110518: Checked link; link is no longer active).” 

Some other articles which look at the issue of hiring sodomites, lesbians, etc.:

The lawyers will make all the legal arguments they can come up with. It will be interesting to see how this turns out.

God bless,
 Brother Jerald

His follow-up Email:

On Friday, January 31, 2020, 12:14:13 PM CST, ______________________________________ wrote:

Thank you Mr. Finney,

But I do have one very serious “burden” on my heart in this particular situation: 

May our sovereign Heavenly Father, somehow choreograph the necessary circumstances whereby YOU – a former “distinguished litigator with the ADF” – could acquire their UNdivided attention ASAP, in order to “lead” all these so-called “Christian” schools & churches in Virginia and elsewhere [ADF included] into genuine wholesale repentance, of this egregious SIN of 501(c)(3) spiritual harlotry, greed, idolatry etc. (i.e., Jeremiah 5:30-31)

Please forgive me, if this doesn’t resonate within you either; as my prayer is simply due to the “sense” I’ve had lately, of 1 Peter 4:17-18 inexorably approaching what’s been “post-Christian” God Bless America, for quite some time now. (e.g., Isaiah 5:20; Hosea 8:7)

God bless ya brother!
__________________________

My Reply to his follow-up Email

Jerald Finney jerald.finney@sbcglobal.net To:______________________ Jan 31 at 12:48 PM

Dear Brother ______________________________,

If God cannot get their attention, no one can. My website publishes all the information needed to get the attention of and inform churches and believers in America as to the truth. The churches and believers in Virginia who compromise the Lord’s church do not want the truth. The ADF and other “Christian” firms and lawyers reject the truth about these matters. They will give no ear to the truth about these matters.

God is in control. These things can vex a child of God. But let not your mind be troubled. God is in control. He always has a remnant who seek to love, please, and glorify Him.

Each of us can do what He has called us to do as we observe consequences according to His will.

God bless,
 Brother Finney 

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Can a Pro Life Ministry get state benefits without obtaining 501c3 status as a requirement for receiving the benefits?

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Dear Mr Finney,
I do volunteer work at the ____________ Pregnancy Resource Center in _________________. ____________________________ Church has started this center a couple of years ago and they are now looking into separating from under the church which is a 501c3 and become independent and more on there own. They want to form a board to oversee this organization and to receive state tax revenue and tax credits with Arizona. To do that we are told to become a 501C3. My question to you is do we have to do that to get the tax benefits that the state of Arizona has to offer? I do not want to become a 501C3. So I’m searching other avenues to see how we can go about this and get the best benefits we can. I truly believe we need to give it to God and let Him provide for all our needs. I think we have lost our dependence on God and look to the government to much for support.
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I did want to do my research and look at all of our options before hand.
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Thank you for your expertise and support.
Sincerely,
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My Reply
Dear Ms. ______________________________________,
Thanks for your inquiry. Because I love the Lord and love you, I must answer your inquiry honestly.
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This ministry helps churches organize under Christ alone according to New Testament principles. An incorporated 501c3 or 508c1A church such as ______________________ is not a church under Christ alone and therefore violates New Testament church doctrine. God ordained his churches to do His spiritual work. He ordained no other organization. He makes clear His Word that His churches are under Him and Him alone, under His authority and His authority alone. They are to organize and operate in all matters according to New Testament principles. An incorporated 501c3 church is under the authority of both the state and federal government for many purposes.
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All ministry, in the Bible sense, is to be out of a local, autonomous, New Testament church under Christ: For example, the book of Ephesians presents the local church under Christ as a spiritual body. I suggest a reading of Ephesians 4. I present here a few verses out of that chapter:
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Ephesians 4:11-16:  “11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; 12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: 13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:  14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; 15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:  From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.” [Red bold emphasis added]
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See the following for a study of the Book of Ephesians and other New Testament books regarding the doctrine of the church: Bible Studies: The Doctrine of the Church.
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I explain all the Bible principles, historical facts, and legal considerations in my online essays, articles, and books.
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New Testament guidelines for churches do not apply either to other types of organizations or to churches who have willfully or ignorantly become legal entities (corporations, charitable trusts, business trusts, unincorporated associations, 501c3 or 508c1A tax exempt organizations, etc.). Of course, people and organizations can do temporal good outside the parameters of a church. However, this ministry is not called, nor does it have the time and resources, to work outside its calling. In the past I have devoted a lot of free help and time to Christian sidewalk counselors who have been falsely accused of crimes as a result of their efforts on behalf of the unborn and legal research on behalf of that cause. See Murdering Unborn Babies, and resources linked to on that.

See also: Murdering Unborn Babies; Abortion Counselor Tried for Crime: Court Briefs and Decision; Articles, Sermons, Etc. on Murdering Unborn Babies; Jury Nullification

All my services for the cause of the unborn (and the cause of individual fathers and mothers, the fight for the primary institution ordained by God) were a gift to my Lord. I was encumbered with no rules to impede my efforts.
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A good question for you is this: “Why are you concerned with a worldly organization staying outside 501c3?” Obviously, God’s provisions are not sufficient for what you wish to do, so you wish to obtain state help without complying with state rules for obtaining that help. You do not wish to abide by the rule of the state that you get 501c3 status in order to get the benefits. You want the benefit without agreeing to the state requirement for 501c3 status. You want a one-way contract whereby they give you something but you do not give them what they require. The state made an offer of contract. You can accept or you can make a counter offer. A contract requires concessions from both parties to the proposed contract. If they give you the benefits for nothing, it is not a contract, it is a gift from the state.
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If you can negotiate for such a gift, then go for it. However, it is unlikely that they will agree to give you something for nothing, that they will agree to cancel the 501c3 status requirement for you.
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I am curious. Do you desire the organization to do things forbidden 501c3 organizations (e.g., to take part in political activities, to have no restrictions on lobby, to hire straight people exclusively, etc.), and to avoid all the red tape that comes with that status? Is that the reason you oppose the 501c3 status requirement?
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I hope this may be of some help to you.
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God bless you as you seek to glorify Him according to His methods. Remember, the method matters to God.
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Jerald
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