The “love of money” argument has nothing to do with it. It is a Red Herring to blind us from seeing the real fight. This is about a fundamental freedom being violated using the unconstitutional misapplication of the IRS 501-C3 rules. The Supreme Court has spoken about the 501-C3 and we know how the unconstitutional Obama Regime went around that ruling when they used the IRS to shut down the political voice of conservative organizations just before the 2012 elections. Now they are trying to go around the Constitution using the 501-C3 against churches. If we can’t see that, we are blind.
I’m a pastor and I don’t even think about someone’s tax deduction. In fact, I don’t think about deductions of any kind at all, because unless they total to a goodly amount, everyone falls under the standard deduction anyway.
All of this is moot, however, because the 1st amendment clearly disentangles governments from church business.
However, as with marriage, there are activities of the church that naturally overlap activities of the government. That doesn’t mean that government determines if 2 people married by a church are married. Nor does it mean that a worship building built by a church is subject to the government.