"Bob Ackley -> Ed Hulett"  wrote in
news:10695$HOLYSMOKE{at}JamNNTPd:

 RS>>> Canadian IRS Strips Church of Charitable Status Because of
 RS>>> Political Advocacy Activites

 BA> Actually *ALL* churches (Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Muslim and
 BA> Mormon) should
 BA> not be tax exempt.  The only exception(s) I would make would be for
 BA> church run hospitals and schools - and then only for those activities
 BA> directly related to those
 BA> hospitals and schools.

 BA> Hospitals perform a valuable public function, and church-run schools
 BA> take some of the
 BA> load off of the public school system.

US churches have taken the religious tax exemption and drove it into the
sewer.

The IRS only gets involved in the most egregious cases, and even then they
back off of stiffer penalties against religions.

They also caved in to political and personal pressure by giving that
exemption to the Scientologists.

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