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RandySF

(58,935 posts)
Thu Jun 4, 2015, 11:34 PM Jun 2015

Pat Robertson: Schools with interracial dating bans deserve tax-exempt status.

Conservative TV preacher Pat Robertson said this week that the Internal Revenue Service had been wrong to strip the tax-exempt status from Bob Jones University after finding a ban on interracial dating to be discriminatory.

A 700 Club report warned on Thursday that the U.S. government could strip religious schools of federal benefits if the Supreme Court ruled that bans on same-sex marriage were unconstitutional.

During recent oral arguments, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia had asked Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. if legalizing same-sex marriage might impact Christian schools the way that Bob Jones University had lost its tax-exempt status in 1983 over racial policies, including an interracial dating ban.

Although the school dropped the ban in 2000, it had argued that it was based on the Bible and that there was a reason God had created people differently.



http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/pat-robertson-schools-with-interracial-dating-bans-deserve-tax-exempt-status-if-its-based-on-the-bible/

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Pat Robertson: Schools with interracial dating bans deserve tax-exempt status. (Original Post) RandySF Jun 2015 OP
so does mean I can take a tax deduction on my slaves dlwickham Jun 2015 #1
No, they deserve a foot up their collective asses shenmue Jun 2015 #2
If you can get it past their heads. SwankyXomb Jun 2015 #4
He is kind of off on his Bible interpretations. If you are going to accept what it actually says God jwirr Jun 2015 #3
What the what? Starry Messenger Jun 2015 #5

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
3. He is kind of off on his Bible interpretations. If you are going to accept what it actually says God
Fri Jun 5, 2015, 12:14 AM
Jun 2015

did not create people differently. The differences supposedly start with the Tower of Babel story. When the people tried to build a tower to reach up to God He punished them by mixing up the languages so they could not communicate on another grand scheme.

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