Recipe for Tyranny: Santorum's Unholy Church-State Alliance

[drakonyx]

Rick Santorum, appearing on ABC's "This Week," defended a comment he made last fall, when he said he "almost threw up" after reading John F. Kennedy's comments about the separation of church and state. "I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state are absolute," he said.

Apparently Santorum doesn't understand that separation of church and state works both ways. Churches benefit, too. They reap a huge benefit from their tax-exempt status. If Santorum wants to eliminate that wall, would he agree that churches should start ponying up their fair share on April 15? Somehow, I doubt it.

Churches enjoy tax exemption under the First Amendment. The rest of us enjoy exemption from church rule under that same amendment. Sounds like a fair trade to me. The founding fathers evidently thought so. But Santorum wants to have his cake and eat it too. (This nearly always causes a bad case of indigestion, which is undoubtedly the real reason he "almost threw up.&quot

http://www.theprovocation.net/2012/02/recipe-for-tyranny-santorums-unholy.html

[SDjack]

1. Eventually, the Southern Baptists will realize

that when Icky says "church", he means the Holy Roman Catholic Church. That leaves very little participation by the unholy others. And, that will cost Icky the southern states, in addition to all the others.