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Pastor drops tax-exempt status in favor of Dem-bashing sermons: ‘I renounce 501(c)(3) Communism!’

May 25, 2022 | | Print Article

A right-wing church pastor sick and tired of being hassled by the left over his politically charged sermons announced this past weekend that he’s relinquished his church’s tax-exempt status so that he can say what he wants, when he wants.

“I want everybody online to pay real close attention. I almost brought the document. I was gonna burn it right here on national television, but it ain’t worth catching our tent on fire. So guess what I did this week? I got an attorney, and I dissolved our stinking 501(c)(3) in this church because the government ain’t gonna tell me what I can and what I can’t say!” Pastor Greg Locke bellowed to his congregation on Sunday.

“So IRS, we don’t need your stupid tax-exempt status! You can put it in a bag and burn it in your front yard for all we care! I renounce 501(c)(3) Communism in this church! So we’ll say what we want to, Skippy Lou! And the IRS and the FBI and everybody we’ve been turned in to can eat my dirty socks on live TV!”

This has been confirmed to be true.

“I revoke our 501(c)(3) status, and IRS, we don’t give two flips what you think about it! We’re squeaky clean, give 90 percent of our money away, and we ain’t afraid of you, because this is America, and we got a constitutional right to say what needs to be said, even when it chaps your hide and makes you feel bad about yourself!” Locke continued.

“So put me in the news again! Get mad again! Send your protesters again! Threaten to kill me again! I ain’t stopping! I ain’t quitting! I ain’t gonna back up, pack up, slack up, or shut up until I been taken up by the glory of God! As a matter of fact, I’m just getting started! I’m just getting started!”

The founder of the Global Vision Bible Church in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, Locke has faced intense scrutiny from the left over his unrepentant sermons. Most recently, he delivered a sermon earlier this month in which he said that true Christians cannot be Democrats.

Listen below, and take notice of what far-leftist commentator Brian Tyler Cohen tweeted:

“I’m to the place right now, if you vote Democrat, I don’t even want you around this church! You can get out! You get out, you demon! You can get out, you baby butchering election thief! You cannot be a Christian and vote Democrat in this nation! I don’t care how mad that makes you. You get pissed off as you want to. You cannot be a Christian and vote Democrat in this nation,” Locke bellowed.

“They are God-denying demons that butcher babies and hate this nation! They hate this nation! Get mad all you want to! I don’t care if you stand! I don’t care if you throw tomatoes! Praise God, I’m about to throw a microphone up in his house! CNN can eat my dirty socks! You cannot be a Democrat and a Christian! You cannot! Somebody say amen!”

The congregation responded with a resounding “amen.”

“The rest of you get out! Get out! Get out in the name of Jesus! I ain’t playing your stupid games! Bunch of devils! I’m sick of it! They want to talk about the insurrection! Let me tell you something: you ain’t seen the insurrection yet! You keep on pushing our buttons, you low down sorry compromisers, you God-hating communists!” he continued.

“You’ll find out what the insurrection is, because we ain’t playing your garbage! We ain’t playing your mess! My Bible says that the church of the living god is an institution, that the gates of hell shall not prevail against it! And the Bible says they will take it by force! That’s what the bible says!”

According to reports, Locke has also previously urged his congregation to avoid the COVID vaccine and accused Vice President Kamala Harris of leading a sex trafficking ring.

His decision to “renounce 501(c)(3) Communism” came roughly a week after left-wing activist Hemant Mehta posted a tweet drawing attention to Locke’s “you cannot be a Christian” sermon and claiming it violated the law.

Exactly one day later, Americans United, a far-left group that fights for the “separation of church and state,” announced that it’d filed a complaint against Locke with the IRS.

“Americans United for Separation of Church and State urged the IRS to investigate Tennessee pastor Greg Locke for violating federal law on Sunday when he repeatedly declared from the pulpit of his Global Vision Bible Church, ‘You cannot be a Christian and vote Democrat in this nation’ and ‘If you vote Democrat, I don’t even want you around this church. You can get out,'” the announcement reads.

“Locke’s remarks violated the Johnson Amendment, a nearly 70-year-old federal law that prevents nonprofits, including houses of worship, from endorsing or opposing political parties or candidates.”

But thanks to Locke renouncing his church’s tax-exempt status, the IRS can no longer touch him …

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