Churches Could Lose Tax Exemption Over Gay Marriage

In light of the recent Supreme Court ruling declaring homosexual marriage legal in all 50 states, the question has been asked, "Could churches lose their tax exempt status if they refuse to perform gay weddings?"

Writing for the political blog, americanthinker.com, Daniel J. Sobieski quotes the Solicitor General of the United States, who told the Supreme Court it is inevitable:

"Justice Alito: Well, in the Bob Jones case, the Court held that a college was not entitled to tax ­exempt status if it opposed interracial marriage or interracial dating. So would the same apply to a university or a college if it opposed same­-sex marriage?

General Verrilli: You know, ­­I don’t think I can answer that question without knowing more specifics, but it’s certainly going to be an issue. I don’t deny that. I don’t deny that, Justice Alito. It is­­ it is going to be an issue."

And for those who think that Barack Obama's Department of Justice wouldn't come down on the side of the secular rather than religious, just remember their Obamacare suit against The Little Sisters of the Poor. Sobieski continues:

"The Little Sisters contend ObamaCare not only violates the First Amendment's religious guarantees, but also the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act. That requires the government to implement its policies in ways that do not impose an unnecessary burden on the free exercise of religion"

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