"Our prime asset just devalued significantly, as our ability to hold out for a good offer was just circumvented by the socialists on the SC"
Hey Rev., Don't under estmate your value to your flock. The suprmes didn't touch that. What they may have done is potentially increase the material value of your building location which does decrease potential for ministry expansion at your site. The bigger concern is the potential loss of real property tax exemptions for churches. To do this though would entail the loss of exemptions for all non profits including hospitals, schools, colleges and various charities. They have too strong a lobby to let that happen. Of course they could tax based on a percentage of the time not used for exempt purposes i.e. down time, since most church buildings are used only on Sunday and for mid-week services.
Our prime fiscal asset
The bigger concern is the potential loss of real property tax exemptions for churches.
bring it on - IMO were slaves to the IRS code right now - as our speech is limited.
If we pay taxes, I personally think you'd see a huge alignment to the right (excepting of course rev jackson and Al Sharpton), and the dems arent about to let that happen