Thank God this doesn't apply to the Catholic Church!

[KevinTheOmnivore]

Originally Posted by Big Papa Goat

So anyway, don't tax non-commercial institutions like churches. It's a dumb idea, churches aren't there to make money, and as for revoking their tax exempt status because of political involvment, they're an important part of a pluralist democracy and shouldn't be supressed. I don't think its neccesarily that bad a thing for priests to be politicking from the pulpit, it's a good way for an ethical perspective to get some influence on political agendas. Even if they don't have perfectly consistent morality, they are still entitled to express their values in the public sphere, like anyone else. Thats what politics, and democratic politics is about. Ya, people trying to get laws passed to "benefit" them. Democracy.

Good point, and for that matter, who is the preacher really going to be converting anyway? I mean, ya know where the old saying of preaching to the choir comes from, right?