That tricky little idea is what's got the fundies here in FL up in arms about Prop 2. They're spreading rumors around that any priest who refuses to marry a gay couple will lose his tax-exempt status, which is just patently untrue.
Personally, I don't think churches should have any tax-exempt status, but participating in politics as a reason to remove that current status pleases me greatly. If this were true, that only certain behaviours could remove tax-exempt status (and not just removing it from all churches everywhere, which is what I'd prefer), then that needs to be written very, very carefully, with clear and unambiguous rules for what activities are considered a violation and what activities are not, and how to decide in the future on an activity that wasn't thought of at the time of writing.
And we all know how good the govt. is at writing clear and unambigious laws, right?
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Personally, I don't think churches should have any tax-exempt status, but participating in politics as a reason to remove that current status pleases me greatly. If this were true, that only certain behaviours could remove tax-exempt status (and not just removing it from all churches everywhere, which is what I'd prefer), then that needs to be written very, very carefully, with clear and unambiguous rules for what activities are considered a violation and what activities are not, and how to decide in the future on an activity that wasn't thought of at the time of writing.
And we all know how good the govt. is at writing clear and unambigious laws, right?