I want the Mother of all Cases on this issue to bury it for all time. LBJ’s failed legacy on display.
What people don’t realize is that the tax exemption for churches goes back to the founding of our country. The realized that the power to tax was the power to control and destroy, and since they believed the government should have no control over religion, they made religious institution tax exempt—right at the beginning of the country.
The Johnson amendment only goes back to 1954.
There was never a bargain between churches and the government that if churches stayed out of politics they wouldn’t be taxed. The Johnson amendment wasn’t even aimed at churches. The fact that it ended up being applied to churches was an unintended consequence.
No church has EVER lost its tax exempt status over political activism. NONE.
Leftists, being who they are, simply ignore the law and do it anyway.
Conservatives, respecting the law (rules) as is inherent in the ideology, silence themselves.