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Fake Ministers?

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The whole thing began in 1962 in Modesto, California with a Baptist minster named Kirby J. Hensley. He got the idea that it wasn't right that ministers got tax advantages, rent-a-car discounts, etc. that ordinary people couldn't have and were material advantages which hadn't anything to do with the Gospel, anyway. He also realized that he could start any religion he wanted and ordain anyone he pleased as a clergyman of it, and no one could say boo to him about without violating the 1st Amendment. Now there are lots of place to get "ordained" besides the regular denominations and the government is enjoined from treating one as better than any other, which is as it should be.
 
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