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First let me say to you again that churches had all the freedom in the world to help people in the past and they simply could not keep up with the need. They might be able to provided 5% today and I seriously doubt that. Nothing you have posted changes that fact in any way. Furthermore it is most certainly not "hostility" to believe that if a church leaders start fundraizing and campaigning for specific candidates and issues that they should indeed lose their Tax Exempt status. Perhaps you are uninformed of what the Tax Exemption is all about. As a religious organization churches are separate from the state. However this presumes that churches are doing church work. Once a church starts raising money for or campaigning for candidates it has then willfully crossed over from a church organization to a political action committee. On top of that we need only look at the many pedophile priests, polygamist cults, David Koresh and Jim Jones types of the "religious" world to see that their is often a compelling public interest in government having stipulations on what a religious organization can and cannot do. Separation of church and state protects the church from the state and equally protects Americans from the political views of any particular church being forced upon them.
First let me say to you again that churches had all the freedom in the world to help people in the past and they simply could not keep up with the need.
They might be able to provided 5% today and I seriously doubt that. Nothing you have posted changes that fact in any way.
Furthermore it is most certainly not "hostility" to believe that if a church leaders start fundraizing and campaigning for specific candidates and issues that they should indeed lose their Tax Exempt status.
Perhaps you are uninformed of what the Tax Exemption is all about. As a religious organization churches are separate from the state. However this presumes that churches are doing church work. Once a church starts raising money for or campaigning for candidates it has then willfully crossed over from a church organization to a political action committee.
On top of that we need only look at the many pedophile priests, polygamist cults, David Koresh and Jim Jones types of the "religious" world to see that their is often a compelling public interest in government having stipulations on what a religious organization can and cannot do.
Separation of church and state protects the church from the state and equally protects Americans from the political views of any particular church being forced upon them.
