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Lecture entitled “Hierarchy of Law” by Attorney Jerald Finney on August 26, 2012.

  1. Scholars confirm the historical facts which explain the true history of the First Amendment. See, List of Scholarly Resources Which Explain and Comprehensively Document Facts Concerning True History of Religious Freedom in America.
  2. Left click here to go to “Law on Church Organization (Trusts, Property tax, etc.)” page.
  3. Left click here to go to “Court Cases of Interest” page.
  4. Left click here to go to “Law Review Articles on Church 501(c)(3), etc.” page.
  5. Click here to go to “Attacks on First Amendment Protection of Freedom of Religion, Speech, Press, and Association”
  6. Click here to go to Lawyers Answer Legal Questions in Online Forum
  7. Click here to go to State Property and Sales Tax Exemption Laws Resource page

Click here to go to a youtube presentation of drivers in Florida not talking to police (this is under Florida law).

Excerpts from Texas Declaration of Independence: “… When the Federal Republican Constitution of their country, which they have sworn to support, no longer has a substantial existence, and the whole nature of their government has been forcibly changed, without their consent, from a restricted federative republic, composed of sovereign states, to a consolidated central military despotism, in which every interest is disregarded but that of the army and the priesthood, both the eternal enemies of civil liberty, the everready minions of power, and the usual instruments of tyrants…. In this expectation they have been cruelly disappointed, inasmuch as the Mexican nation has acquiesced in the late changes made in the government by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who having overturned the constitution of his country, now offers us the cruel alternative, either to abandon our homes, acquired by so many privations, or submit to the most intolerable of all tyranny, the combined despotism of the sword and the priesthood…. It denies us the right of worshipping the Almighty according to the dictates of our own conscience, by the support of a national religion, calculated to promote the temporal interest of its human functionaries, rather than the glory of the true and living God….”

Article: The Roberts Court Has Been a First Amendment Champion by Steve Chapman (July 27, 2017)

1. Some states are beginning to stand against federal government tyranny. The Supreme Court declared itself to be the final arbiter of the Constitution. Federal agencies make law. The example most relevant to this website is the adding, by the Internal Revenue Service, of a fifth rule (“shall not violate fundamental public policy”) to Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3). Of course, that addition was contested in Bob Jones University, 461 U.S. 574; 103 S. Ct. 2017; 76 L. Ed. 2d 157; 1983 U.S. LEXIS 36; 51 U.S.L.W. 4593; 83-1 U.S. Tax Cas. (CCH) P9366; 52 A.F.T.R.2d (RIA) 5001 (1983); the Supreme Court upheld the IRS law. See the following articles.

2. Steve Lee Drake v. State of Texas (This was a case in which a sidewalk counselor at an abortion clinic was falsely charged with violation of the City of Austin, TX sign ordinance. In falsely charging Steve, the city violated his First Amendment freedom of speech. Jerald Finney handled the case from trial (Finney’s second trial) to final appeal (his first appeal) and reversal of Steve’s conviction and order to dismiss).

Simply left click to go to a particular document:

Brief for Appellant Steven Lee Drake (PDF)
State’s Reply Brief (PDF)
Appellant’s Reply To Brief For Appellee (PDF)
Decision Of Court Of Appeals (PDF)
Trial Court’s Finding Of Not Guilty In Compliance With Judgment of Appeal Court (PDF)
Trial Court’s Final Letter To Attorney Jerald Finney (PDF)

3. Jury Nullification: Article, Brief, and Requested Jury Instruction (by Jerald Finney)

4. The Legality of Door-to-Door Evangelism (by Jerald Finney)

5. Summaries of all U.S. Supreme Court Cases Dealing with Parental Rights (Researched and prepared by Jerald Finney for the Alliance Defense Fund in 2002. This has not been supplemented since original publication.)

6. Summaries of all 5th Circuit Cases Dealing with Parental Rights (Researched and prepared by Jerald Finney for the Alliance Defense Fund in 2002. This has not been supplemented since original publication.)

7. Summaries of 5th Circuit Cases Dealing with Abortion (Researched and prepared by Jerald Finney for the Alliance Defense Fund in 2002. This has not been supplemented since original publication.)

8. The Force Is All Around Us – Even in Our Courtrooms (Article by Jerald Finney)

9. December 22, 2013: Lawless Police Officer Attacks Street Preaching In Northfield, Minnesota (On the law concerning street preaching)

9a. Tract: Street Preaching in America: Is it Legal?  

10. Article by Jerald Finney: “Is It Wrong For A Believer To Sue For Violation Of His Constitutional Rights? A Real Life Study“

11. Booklet by Jerald Finney: Critique of Church Freedom and the Corporation Sole Website. This booklet reveals the truth about church corporation sole organization.

12. Booklet by Jerald Finney: Ecclesiastical Law Center Exposed. This booklet explains the ordinary trust and exposes the problems with the trust recommended to churches by the Ecclesiastical Law Center.

13. Article by Jerald Finney: Can a church force a homosexual to turn straight to stay in the church? (090915)

14. Article by Jerald Finney: Moslem question on AVVO concerning free speech in America with answers from lawyers (092015).

15. Article by Jerald Finney: Lawyers answer question about speech in the public forum in America (091915).

16. Letter to city officials concerning up-coming street preaching by men of OPBC (102115).

17. Are you ready to lose your job or be dismissed from school for your faith? Important Freedom Of Religion Cases Lose On Appeal (041315)

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The local church sanctified and cleansed by the washing of water by the word——————–A ministry of Charity Baptist Tabernacle of Amarillo, Texas led by Pastor Ben Hickam. "Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me. For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ" (2 Corinthians 11:1-3). ————————————Jerald Finney, a Christian Lawyer and member of Charity Baptist Tabernacle, having received this ministry in the Lord, explains how a church in America can remain under the Lord Jesus Christ and Him only. "As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen" (1 Peter 4:10-11; See also, Ephesians 4::1-16 and 1 Corinthians 12:1-25). "Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it" (Colossians 4:17). "And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church" (Ephesians 1.22; See also, e.g. Colossians 1:18).