re: #76 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I just want them to explain why the churches being tax-exempt doesn’t constitute an “establishment of religion”. The fact that the Established Church is “all of them, Katie” doesn’t make it any less of a violation of the First Amendment.

Probably the second half of the statement: “or the free exercise thereof.” Being able to take a church out of existence kind of prohibits that. When it was originally written, it was preventing favoritism, but think of how it could have been used later. I mean, how hard would it have been to have taxed black churches, and then use it to go after blacks meeting in homes as violating the law.