Any Church preaching against Gay marriage should lose tax free status. [View All]

[Tyler Durden]

Organized Religion has a long history in this country of working for the good of all, and taking a blind eye to race, creed, or color. If this cannot be extended to the minority that through sexual orientation does not conform to one of their SOCIAL mores, then the organization must take a politically neutral stance. Unfortunately, this looks like the end of Religious Activism on an organizational level.

The call has gone out to the Fundamentalist Churches to influence members to support and lobby for a Constitutional Amendment defining heterosexual marriage as the only form recognized. This is a blatant political action.

Too long has the Religious Right, or any religious sector, been allowed to hold a minority of the country hostage to their personal religious beliefs, be they Anti Choice, Anti Gay, Anti Atheist, or White supremacist. It is sad to lose the positive action of Organized Religion for social change where it exists, but when a group can command this level of power over a disliked minority, then that power must be restricted.

Of course, no one can mandate the free speech of a member of Clergy, but if a church's pulpit is used for any purpose that urges or demands a political influence be made, then that religious organization must be considered to be acting as a political organization, and no longer be within the bounds of Tax Exempt status.