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Decatur Deb5/27/2012 4:42:33 pm PDT

re: #37 I’m back in the USSR (sigh)

This raises the question that I’ve been thinking about. Re: SSM affecting religious institutions’ tax exempt status. Can it? On a related note, can a church’s choosing not to marry an interracial couple cost it its tax exempt status? One would think not, since then various Christian Identity churches could not “normally” exist. On the other hand, Bob Jones U lost tax exempt status because of interracial dating policies. Given this, is it correct to state that establishment of SSM won’t affect tax exemption?

Can’t be an issue. No one is forcing the Catholic church to marry straight divorced Catholics now, even though divorce is legal.