I don’t think any church or organization, charitable or not, should be exempt from any taxes. I don’t want to support most of them, and I don’t expect other people to support my my church or favored organizations. Every organization should have to pay all applicable taxes.
When the government started its welfare programs the religions did not have
to care for the poor. Look what has happened.
The anti-Mormon bigotry on Free Republic amazes me. One group who can’t prove anything is claiming the other group can’t prove anything. From what I learned in Catechism, it’s not very Christ-like.