That’s right. We need a special dispensation from the government just to live.
That’s the problem with the tax-exempt status of religion. The government can always threaten to take that status away — forcing churches to allow gay marriages or hire gay job applicants.
Or the free exercise thereof. Something in the Constitution about that.
I'm a born again Christian (there's no other kind) first and a Baptist 2nd, and I believe my local church would give up it's tax free status when, not if, it comes down to a choice between obeying God's Holy Word or relinquishing it's tax exempt status. If I'm wrong about that matter I will leave my current local church and look for another one that has a strong Christian backbone like the great Apostle Paul's. In his Holy Spirit-inspired epistles he told us to obey government's JUST laws which are ordained by God, but not to obey Caesar when his UNJUST laws conflict with God's commands. I don't think there is any question about whether or not a government order to tolerate or ignore a gross sin such as homosexual depravity is NOT ordained by God since He identifies homosexual acts as a prominent one of the gross sins that the antediluvian people practiced in their heyday, (see Romans ch 1, v 26-27) and by so doing brought down God's judgment on their depraved civilization.
Simply said, I will NOT be a member of any so-called church or denomination that tolerates the practice of homosexual depravity and/or approves same-sex "marriage" by it's members. If that means paying higher taxes than are paid by those Christians who are willing to compromise with gross sin in exchange for a tax exemption so be it.