EDITORIAL: The SEDM position on whether government should engage in charity is clear:

1.6 That the family, and government, and church are God-ordained institution; and, that the family is the institution of education; that the government is the institution of justice; and that the Church is the institution of grace. 

[SEDM About Us Page, Section 9: About Religious Tolerance and this Ministry, Item 1.6; https://sedm.org/Ministry/AboutUs.htm#9.__About_religious_tolerance_and_this_ministry]

The reason why this is comes from the bible. Churches and private humans will bring a CURSE upon society to accept or borrow any form of government grant or charity, because:

1. It ALWAYS comes with legal strings attached that cause the government to become a competitor to God for the affection, allegiance, and obedience of the people.
   “The rich rules over the poor,
   And the borrower is servant to the lender.”
   [Prov. 22:7, Bible, NKJV]
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   Curses of Disobedience [to God’s Laws]
   “The alien [Washington, D.C. is legislatively “alien” in relation to states of the Union] who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower [malicious destruction of EQUAL PROTECTION and EQUAL TREATMENT by abusing FRANCHISES].  He shall lend to you [Federal Reserve counterfeiting franchise], but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.
   
   “Moreover all these curses shall come upon you and pursue and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.  And they shall be upon you for a sign and a wonder, and on your descendants forever.
   
   “Because you did not serve [ONLY] the Lord your God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of everything,  therefore you shall serve your [covetous thieving lawyer] enemies, whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in need of everything; and He will put a yoke of iron [franchise codes] on your neck until He has destroyed you.  The Lord will bring a nation against you from afar [the District of CRIMINALS], from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies [the American Eagle], a nation whose language [LEGALESE] you will not understand,  a nation of fierce [coercive and fascist] countenance, which does not respect the elderly [assassinates them by denying them healthcare through bureaucratic delays on an Obamacare waiting list] nor show favor to the young [destroying their ability to learn in the public FOOL system].  And they shall eat the increase of your livestock and the produce of your land [with “trade or business” franchise taxes], until you [and all your property] are destroyed [or STOLEN/CONFISCATED]; they shall not leave you grain or new wine or oil, or the increase of your cattle or the offspring of your flocks, until they have destroyed you.
   [Deut. 28:43-51, Bible, NKJV]
2. It causes the recipients to abuse the tax system to transfer wealth and makes the government into a thief and a Robinhood.
3. It contradicts the idea of grace. Charity and grace are both incompatible with FORCE. Taxes used to fund these handouts are ENFORCED and STOLEN in most cases.

Yes, God says He owns everything, and commands Christians to be thankful and generous. But that generosity can and should be pursued ONLY by the Church and the Family so that it comes with responsibility and accountability to good moral standards toward the givers, and more importantly to God. Government handouts seldom if ever enforce morality or accountability that only churches and families implement through their giving.

For this reason, we STRONGLY CONDEMN any and all Christian organizations, including Faithful America and Catholics Vote Common Good, who advance the expansion, continuation, or anything but the elimination of all charity sponsored by the government.

For a detailed description of what happens when you put government in charge of charity, see:

How Scoundrels Corrupted Our Republican System of Government, Family Guardian Fellowship

If these allegedly but not actually “moral” Christians want to fix the problem caused by cutting government charity funding, they should promote BOTH the following:

1. Giving the government LESS money and returning it to the families and churches it came from.
2. Using the tax money the government used to spend on their behalf and spend it on personal giving at the church and family level.

Any approach OTHER than the above is clearly anti-biblical and IMMORAL. Bigger government or turning charity and grace over to the government and taking it and the money associated with it AWAY from churches and giving it to the government is never a good thing. It shrinks the sovereignty of churches and families and grows that of the government. It destroys the checks and balances built into God’s design for good government found in the bible.

Shame on these churches, pastors, and Christian organizations! They aren’t reading or obeying their Bible and are unwittingly promoting socialism and the OPPOSITE of Grace: Government theft that pays for the handouts through taxation.

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BEGIN ARTICLE:

Thousands of Christians Condemn ‘Immoral’ MAGA Republican Budget Goals

Story by Natalie Venegas, 9/9/23, Newsweek

SOURCE: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/thousands-of-christians-condemn-immoral-maga-republican-budget-goals/ar-AA1gvXxM?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=b5617185616442fba364635939cc7d8f&ei=30

While Congress has until September 30 to act on government funding, thousands of Christians have signed a petition to oppose proposed budget cuts made by MAGA Republicans, urging them to pass a “moral budget” instead.

In its petition from last Thursday, Faithful America, an organization of Christians supporting social justice causes while opposing “Christian nationalism,” wrote that Republican leaders are proposing to cut funding to clean water, climate change programs, food assistance for women and children, and other programs.

While these proposals have not yet been voted on, Faithful America added in its petition, which has over 8,100 signatures as of Sunday morning, that these proposals are “immoral” and “unnecessary” since these essential elements of funding are hurtful towards communities in need.

In an effort to create awareness and create change, Faithful America says it partnered with Catholics Vote Common Good, a nonprofit, to create the petition to show representatives in Washington that Christians want them to pass a “moral budget that works for everyone.”

“People of good conscience cannot sit on the sidelines while the House GOP proposes cutting funding for infant and children food programs, clean water, and education and job training programs. We want a moral federal budget that serves All Americans – especially the least among us. That is why Catholics Vote Common Good and Faithful America are calling on people of faith to speak out against the draconian proposed federal funding cuts,” Denise Murphy McGraw, co-founder of Catholics Vote Common Good, told Newsweek on Sunday.

Reverend Nathan Empsall, the executive director of Faithful America, told Newsweek the petition aims to have 10,000 signatures by Monday evening.

“Budgets are moral documents, which means that this is a chance for our government to provide much-needed funding for the common good — but some on the far-right see it as an opportunity to force painful, immoral, unnecessary cuts to services that millions depend on,” Faithful America’s petition states.

In a House of Representatives where Republicans hold a slight majority, an immense amount of influence can be seen as the Freedom Caucus, a group of at least 49 conservatives, are demanding the House institute deep cuts.

At a press conference at the Capitol in July, some members of the House Freedom Caucus, said it was time for House Republicans to use every tool available to get the spending cuts they want.

While the proposed cuts have continued to leave tension between Democrats and Republicans, Faithful America remains concerned. “Christians cannot stand quietly by while Republican politicians force children to go hungry, let our water become undrinkable, or close doors to asylum seekers,” the organization wrote.

Despite the opposition, if Congress cannot agree on federal spending numbers by October 1, the United States could face a government shutdown.

“We should not fear a government shutdown,” Republican Congressman Bob Good of Virginia, a member of the Freedom Caucus, said during a news conference in July. “Most of what we do up here [on Capitol Hill] is bad anyway. Most of what we do up here hurts the American people.”