Paying taxes will not buy free speech
The exemption was the payoff for keeping their mouths shut about politics.
I'm grateful that you get it. No, we will still not be free to speak against homosexuality, even paying taxes.
Conservatives think that being relieved of tax exemption grants freedom, when, in fact, it grants government even MORE oversight and access to scrutinize the sources of income. Individuals who pay taxes on the ridiculously complicated, intrusive 1040 every year already know this. It will be magnified 10x for churches.