[James C. Bennett]

Maybe unfairly, but we do hold religious leaders to higher standards.

Yes, and it is for reasons such as these that man-made religious institutions enjoy such advantages as lesser scrutiny and more tax benefits. Of course, exposure of their darker sides is beginning to change all that, now.

[metmom]

Maybe unfairly, but we do hold religious leaders to higher standards.

Yes, and it is for reasons such as these that man-made religious institutions enjoy such advantages as lesser scrutiny and more tax benefits.

You don't have a clue what you're talking about. *Lesser scrutiny* from whom? Those aren't reasons why they get tax breaks either.

Of course, exposure of their darker sides is beginning to change all that, now.

What darker side of religion? Maybe islam, but Christianity doesn't condone that kind of behavior at all.

And even if it was, since you are proposing the wrong reasons for tax breaks and lack of government interference, that's not the reason all that is changing.