[xzins]

Here is a thought: how about remove any “tax exempt status” and let people and organizations decide for themselves what they want.

I agree with getting rid of the income tax, and your point is one reason for doing away with it.

One point: church offering plate money is not taxed because it is protected by the first amendment. What this bill by Lee does is protect the individual tax filer's charitable deduction from his own income.

[sagar]

When you love $$$ and want to avoid taxes, you have to play by the government rules. Can’t serve two masters.

[P-Marlowe]

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to join this man and this other man together in the bounds of an unholy union sanctioned by a fascist government and condemned in no uncertain terms by the Almighty God.

By their carnal union today they have chosen to spit in the face of God and all that is Holy and when this ceremony has been concluded this man and this other man will have sealed their eternal fate into the hands of an Angry God who will most assuredly throw them both into the fires of eternal damnation where the worm dieth not.

Now Bruce, do you take Roger to be your lawfully wedded spouse and partner in this ceremonial Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, to have and to hold until one of you or the other enters into the gates of a fiery Hell?