Iowa Churches Can't Discriminate During Services 'Open to the Public'
Ignore the emotion-laden arguments over sexuality and gender herein. This is what should make our blood run cold:
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Religious institutions are exempt, but only when they are doing something “related to a bona fide religious purpose.”
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Now the State has claimed the power to decide what is bona fide religion and what is not.
Who was it who said, "Nothing outside the state"? In 1932, Mussolini defined Fascism for the Italian Encyclopedia. It included this nugget:
The foundation of Fascism is the conception of the State, its character, its duty, and its aim. Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived of in their relation to the State. The conception of the Liberal State is not that of a directing force, guiding the play and development, both material and spiritual, of a collective body, but merely a force limited to the function of recording results: on the other hand, the Fascist State is itself conscious and has itself a will and a personality -- thus it may be called the "ethic" State....This is where we are in America today:
...The Fascist State organizes the nation, but leaves a sufficient margin of liberty to the individual; the latter is deprived of all useless and possibly harmful freedom, but retains what is essential; the deciding power in this question cannot be the individual, but the State alone....
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