Quote Originally Posted by denuseri View Post
Still would love to see this law.
Look at this page.

My statements above may be a little broad, as far as this explanation goes, but the idea is the same. Technically, as I read it, all of the campaigning that the Mormon Church did for Prop 8 in California should have cost them their tax-free status. Just one example.

Tax free status must then be removed from all groups of every kind.
I can agree with that. I've never quite been able to figure out why churches and charities should NOT pay taxes, at least on those portions of the money they collect which does not get used to actually do charity work.

(um actually they do have the right to free speech just like the rest of us, they can lie about another group etc as much as you do...which includes saying whatever for the most part even when its not true IE: including lies...slander on the other hand and where the legal line lays is a whole different matter.)
There are, as you are well aware, restrictions on free speech. One cannot say anything which comes to mind about another person, or group of people, unless one has some semblance of evidence to back up those statements. When I, and others, make claims about the lies told by religious organizations, we are basing those comments on actual lies told by religious leaders! I can, for example, claim that religious organizations promote mythology because the stories which they preach are indistinguishable from those stories which we all recognize as myths. THEY may believe them to be true, but without evidence there is no reason anyone else MUST believe them to be true. Their freedom of speech allows them to preach these myths in their churches and schools: it does NOT give them the right to FORCE those who don't believe to teach them as well.