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Question: Should churches that don't perform gay marriages lose their tax-exempt status?
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Pim Fortuyn
Junior Chimp
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« on: June 27, 2015, 04:46:33 PM »

Absolutely not. No church should be forced to hold gay weddings. In 20 years, eh maybe. Are churches allowed to forbid interracial marriages today?

But they should lose tax-exempt status if they campaign on political issues.

After gay marriage was legalized in Connecticut in 2008, there was a referendum question on the November ballot over whether or not to authorize a constitutional convention, solely in order to pass a gay marriage ban. The Catholic Church in my town had a sign on it's front lawn urging a "yes" vote. That should have been unacceptable. If they want to influence politics, then no more special treatment. Thankfully it was voted down in the ensuing Obama landslide.
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Cubby
Pim Fortuyn
Junior Chimp
*****
Posts: 5,067
Israel


Political Matrix
E: -3.74, S: -6.96

« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2015, 09:49:24 PM »

So if the pastor speaks out against rounding up undocumented immigrants and sending them to camps, they should have their tax-exempt status revoked?  No thank you.

Point taken. They shouldn't be tax-exempt in the first place, but that's an argument for another day.
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