[ThinkLikeWaterAndReeds]

Separation of church and state is an ideal I read about somewhere. If the church is to be political, fine, but it should also have to pay taxes, and contributions by members will no longer be tax deductable. That should keep them in line or deminish the congregations and donations substantially.

[timestax]

If the church is to be political, fine, but it should also have to pay taxes, and contributions by members will no longer be tax deductable.

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[LarryLied]

Separation of church and state is an ideal I read about somewhere.

An ideal? For whom? It is nowhere in the constitution. It was put into constitutional law by the former Klu Klan Klan member, nativist and anti-Catholic bigot, Hugo Black in 1947. In the last 4 years, the Supremee Court has dropped the Separation metaphor. They have not yet replaced it with anything. So we had Separation from about 1947-98, not before and not since.