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Old 02-18-2016, 11:22 AM
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Anti-Gay Marriage Churches Could Lose Tax-Exempt Status | The Daily Caller

Churches could lose their tax-exempt status with the IRS if they refuse to recognize the Supreme Court’s ruling Friday legalizing gay marriage in all 50 states, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts warned in his dissenting opinion.
Nice try but when you use the Daily Caller you might want to question whether they have accurately reported what they contend. The story you link does say churches may loose their tax exempt status but they lied about what Roberts wrote. If you care you can read his dissent here:
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions...4-556_3204.pdf see page 28 of his writing
He said very clearly that non churches which are tax sheltered by being associated with a religion might be at risk. That means things like a college associated with a church which refuses marital housing to a legally married gay couple might place their institution at risk, a college which will not add a gay partner to its health insurance which is provides for straight couples might be at risk. But this absolutely does not apply to an actual church and Roberts makes that very very clear in his writing. The Daily Caller has mislead you. This exact situation happened to Bob Jones University when it had its tax exempt status threatened because it refused to accept dating or marriage of a white person to a non-white person.
If you really care you can read a summary of the SCOTUS decision in revoking Jones's tax exemption here on Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Jo..._United_States
or just read this very clear part proving my point that a university being at risk is not the same as a church

The Court applied a strict scrutiny analysis and found that the "Government has a fundamental, overriding interest in eradicating racial discrimination in education . . . which substantially outweighs whatever burden denial of tax benefits places on [the University's] exercise of their religious beliefs." The Court made clear, however, that its holding dealt "only with religious schools—not with churches or other purely religious institutions."[2]

See how you were mislead? By the way, Bob Jones University did not lift its ban on interracial dating until 2000 after GW Bush made a speech there and their policy became more widely known. No GOP Presidential candidate has blessed BJU with a visit until this year when both Cruz and Carson have made official visits, certainly within their right to go after that kind of Evangelical voter.