RE: Are religions that preach inequality for women and gays, traitors to their country?
January 12, 2021 at 2:10 pm
The quote above is what I've been responding to. I don't think that many of the objections to church exemptions would harm a great many beneficial organizations, and I note that if it were an issue there is already a process to appeal and remedy compliance.
I don't think that it would significantly impact the operations of churches providing those services, even - as the entities are already legally dissociated. The majority of c3s are not religious in any way, and not using their c3 status to do anything even remotely like what the subjects of such reforms focuses on. There's a credible concern for rare occasions when a service is only being provided by an offending organization - but given dissociation or the availability of recapturing subsidies to attend to that service - in addition to the mentioned process above for an organization to appeal and remedy their compliance - we have the tools required to scrutinize this at whatever level is appropriate to a given claimant.
The situation, with respect to c3s, simply isn't as bad as the current institutional use of c3 status by some religious organizations would make it seem.
I don't think that it would significantly impact the operations of churches providing those services, even - as the entities are already legally dissociated. The majority of c3s are not religious in any way, and not using their c3 status to do anything even remotely like what the subjects of such reforms focuses on. There's a credible concern for rare occasions when a service is only being provided by an offending organization - but given dissociation or the availability of recapturing subsidies to attend to that service - in addition to the mentioned process above for an organization to appeal and remedy their compliance - we have the tools required to scrutinize this at whatever level is appropriate to a given claimant.
The situation, with respect to c3s, simply isn't as bad as the current institutional use of c3 status by some religious organizations would make it seem.
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