I have a radical idea for dealing with the Catholic church.

[Archae]

The IRS revokes their tax-exempt status until we see REAL efforts to weed out the perverts, and the hierarchy that covers up for the perverts.

That includes Pope Rat The 1rst.

[pnwmom]

1. You think the Vatican would care? Pope Benedict has already said that

a smaller, more orthodox, church might be preferred.

[Mojeoux]

2. Jesse ventura suggested using RICO laws.

This was a fancy pants gangster conspiracy against children and their families.

[pnwmom]

3. Jesse Ventura is an idiot. n/t

[TheMadMonk]

7. Agree. Sad thing is he still would have made a better president than W. nt

[pnwmom]

8. Anyone on my block would have made a better President than W. n/t

[katandmoon]

4. Revoke ALL churches' tax exempt status.

[maxanne]

5. that would be devastating

to small liberal denominations like Unitarian Universalists and Quakers. It would wipe them out, in fact. That's not in anyone's best interest.

[katandmoon]

6. Too bad. Let them support their own delusions.

[pnwmom]

9. It's a key factor in how the Supreme Court has always interpreted freedom of religion.

Being taxed would be seen as an encroachment by the State.

[BrentWil]

10. WHy not just do that for all organizations thats main purpose isn't charity

Why keep any church, that doesn't give at least 51% of its funds to help humanity tax free?

[pnwmom]

15. Because the Constitution protects the free exercise of religion and the Supreme Court

has always interpreted that to mean no taxation for religious activities.

[ZeitgeistObserver]

11. Why do you think anyone would support this?

[Archae]

12. Be one helluva incentive.

For "His Holiness" to clean out the rot.

[ZeitgeistObserver]

13. But no one will support it.

The US has a huge RC population. What politician is going to propose such a thing? Catholics would be outraged.

And other churches will instantly back the Vatican, because they know they'll be next on the list.

[pnwmom]

14. And the strong support of Catholics helped put Obama into office. n/t

[ZeitgeistObserver]

16. Sure did. And they defied the church to do it.

So they'd have a fit if anything like that was proposed.

[Toasterlad]

17. No Cults Should Be Tax Exempt

That includes the catholic church, and all other chrisitian denominations.