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Old 08-22-2007, 05:51 PM   #1
xoxoxoBruce
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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey View Post
Exactly. When churches pay the same as everybody else, they aren't being charged to exercise their religious freedom.
Yes they are. Saying "everybody else" is putting a church on the same footing with an individual. A Church is made up of individuals that have already been taxed, so you want to double tax them in order to exercise their religion. Fortunately, the founding fathers foresaw your desire to repress the churches and wrote that protection into the Constitution. That's why the churches aren't taxed and can't participate in politics.
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