[aimhigh]

The article says, "Unless America’s pastors rise up as one, now, that day will arrive like a thief in the night, a day when each pastor will be told that he must solemnize sodomy-based marriages in his church or his church’s 501(c)(3) status will be revoked. At that point, he and his church will effectively be out of business.”

Wrong. Churches can and do survive without 501(c)(3) status.

[Catsrus]

Golly, I wonder how the early churches survived without their 501 (c)(3) status. Just the like the underground church in China and Russia - they meet secretly in homes and other places - they have no buildings with fancy stained-glass windows or steeples and they serve and worship the Lord just fine. In fact, I’d gesture that they walk closer to God than most of us do.

[COBOL2Java]

What happens when the state decides to retroactively revoke a church’s 501(c)(3) status back to the date of its founding and charge interest and penalties for back taxes due? Before you say “they can’t do that!” what’s to stop them?