Toon - Religious Exemptions for Piety and Profit

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http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/01/08/opinion/sunday/the-strip.html?ref=sunday#1

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1. THE CHURCH

MORAL OUTRAGE

The latest attack on President Obama is ''moral outrage'' about the church providing contraceptives to women. Romney, Santorum, and Gingrich are almost hysterical in their condemnation of Obama's plan to force the church to provide contraceptives to women. Ok, I'll go along with the Republicans on this issue, but first, let's take away the church's tax free status. How on earth did they manage to sucker us into that law? Imagine this: the Republicans will fight to the death to keep the tax free status for all religions--religions that are sitting on hundreds of billions of dollars in cash, while they complain about the poor getting food stamps. Now that's immoral. You want more immoral acts? Try this on for size: the Vatican protects the cardinals who protect the bishops who protect the priests who rape little boys. There is no question that the hypocrites are in charge of the Republican party. Today, Santorum said that ''faith'' is more important than a women's right to contraceptives. He, Romney, and, Gingrich are against contraceptives even in the case of rape, incest, and to save the mother's life. People who believe this do not belong in America of the 21st century. We need a time machine to send these people back to Italy or Spain during the "Inquisition'', where they would be more than welcome by the clergy. I'm not sure that these three imbeciles (Castro's words) would do the raping and torturing; however, I would not rule out voyeurism.

R.T.

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2. One easy solution to the Church's need to follow fed regulations ...

stop taking any monies from the Government ...

Rely on all that Nazi gold in the Vatican basement to pay for all the "help" the Catholic Church is alleged to be doing with the Govt money ...

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3. No more tax exemptions for ANY religious organization.

Time to pay tax on your charlatan gains.

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5. I'm not down with that. We need partnerships with CONTROL in the hands of public standards

entities.

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6. that is, DYNAMIC public standards entities, along the same model as that used by OWS. nt

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7. How about tax exemptions for secular public service organizations?

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4. JOBS subsidized by our taxes and on the systemically guaranteed backs of the poor & elderly: SaintCo

Un-ending poor & elderly = Un-ending jobs for SaintCoC.
PRIVATE/**AT-WILL** employment created my/our PUBLIC money.

[DeSwiss]

8. K&R n/t