It has been on 31 states ballots and 100% have gone down, does that discourage the 3%? hell no it is on another 4 states ballots this year too, one of them for the second time after it was defeated. These people do not give up, they will not go away.
Speaking as a seminary student, either all churches should be completely tax exempt no matter what, or all churches should pay taxes. The ‘tax exempt status’ is nothing more than a lever that the government uses to try to control Christians.