Do YOU think it's time to end the tax exempt status of churches?

[truedelphi]

48. Sad to hear that - BUT BUT BUT

We all have heard of isolated incidents where the IRS goes in and takes away an individual parish or church pastor's ability to be tax exempt. I remember back in the Georgie Pordgie era, some minister in the MidWest preached against the Iraq war. For that, his church's ability to be tax exempt was yanked away from them.

Have no idea how it played out. It was a major denomination - forgetting if it was Presbyterian or Methodist. SO did the top Presbyterian or Methodist church officials sue the IRS? Did those officials replace that minister so that the church property he oversaw would not be taxed on state and city tax rolls? Don't have those answers.


But it does seem to me if pastors preaching anti-war can be hassled by IRS, then so can pastors preaching to the Catholics audience that Obama is the devil due to being for contraception being paid for by employers or insurance.

And what about all the Mormon monies that funded Prop 8 here in California, that sought to ban gay marriage? Shouldn't the Mormon Church lose its tax exempt status until it leaves the subject of gay marriage out of its preaching, or at least stops funding major political initiatives that end up on the ballot?