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Lover of Horses
meus_ovatio
12 November 2009 @ 07:42 pm
 
Am I the only one left on the internets who received a standard American education?

For the sixth time already people, the tax-exempt status of religious organizations is a direct result of the separation of church and state as understood by our history.

It's just some weird bizarro world to see people complaining about the tax-exempt status violating the principle of the separation of church and state.

Then again, it is just a phrase, and knowing what the phrase means and entails with a solid historical understanding of it is just "intellectual poppycock" or something.
 
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i[info]i on November 13th, 2009 02:16 am (UTC)
it's a two way street, though. if churches want to be tax exempt, they have to stay out of government as well. a number of them seem to be pushing the envelope a bit much, such as the LDS funding prop 8 in California, and the Catholics threatening to cut off services if their anti gay agenda isn't adhered to or excommunicating politicians who don't vote their religion.
Lover of Horses[info]meus_ovatio on November 13th, 2009 02:21 am (UTC)
I agree that it is a two-way street. But to see a religious organization violating the rules of its tax-exempt status and then to criticize the very existence of such is an invalid move.
i[info]i on November 13th, 2009 02:36 am (UTC)
yes.

i have to say, from personal experience, that the tax exempt status of churches sucks for people who are laid off or fired by them. because the church doesn't pay unemployment taxes, you don't get unemployment benefits.
 
 

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