You can't flap the air with written words on a computer forum. A church isn't supposed to be a business. Churches aren't supposed to receive money from members in order to turn a profit. If a church is run that way, it should in fact be taxed, because it is in business to make money instead of to enlighten or teach. If a church is receiving federal funding at one of it's buildings or outreach efforts, then that effort should be subject to federal law. That isn't the case here. The HHS mandate forces everyone to cover birth control irregardless of any tax money received and that is the real problem. Even if the Catholic church refused all further federal funding, this mandate would force them to cover birth control against their beliefs.

The reason I concluded that you don't attend a church is because you don't seem to understand that tithes given to a church have already been taxed. The church isn't a business and isn't receiving those funds in exchange for anything. They are voluntary gifts. They aren't profits or earnings to be taxed. They are non-profit donations. Taxing churches would open all non-profit organizations, even left leaning ones up to taxation. Maybe planned parenthood should be taxed since they receive federal funds. How about NOW? You can't have it both ways.

If grandma and the disabled aren't receiving any money from the government like the churches aren't, then they aren't being paid for by you and me whether they pay any taxes or not. It is simple.

JOW, Your twisted view of taxes is one of the huge issues in this country. Just because churches don't pay taxes doesn't make them receivers of tax money. That is twisted logic. It is a twisting of facts to try to prove a false argument. You don't sound like you are a member of any church, but if you pay attention, there are scandals in all churches amoung the clergy. ALL churches are made up of imperfect people.

Tax exemption means they aren't taxed and therefore aren't taking tax dollars. Your argument was weak at best. I don't want to keep up with that kind of faux logic.

Right, because the church is telling these women she can't go somewhere else for their birth control. The church isn't denying them the right to anything. They just aren't supplying a service they are morally oppossed to. Entering the public domain doesn't forfeit those rights at all. Your confusing premise that a private group is ruled by the public doesn't make any sense at all. You seem to think these people are being forced into these schools. It is quite the opposite.

Couldn't any contribution be considered to be payment by an outside interest? What makes these contributions more onerous than any other politician's contribution?

Why aren't all of you progressives arguing for the separation of church and state? This law clearly tramples that separation by regulating church run organizations.

I didn't hear HWNB complaining when the DNC was robocalling to get Democrats to vote in the Republican primary in these states... Seems like all progressives, he only thinks things are fair when they go his way.

All one need do to understand the animosity and violence directed at Israel by muslims is read the koran. It's all in there. They are anti-semitic because it is in their religion to kill or enslave anyone who isn't muslim, especially jews. This isn't a fight over land. The farce of a group calling themselves palestinians are just terrorists following their religion.

Yes Rickaroo, because it is completely crazy to think a man raised by communist parents decended from communist grandparents and associated with communists and socialists might be marxist. Very far fetched.