Should Churches Remain Tax-Exempt?

[Nope]

[quote='Chad32' pid='815343' dateline='1418253979']

No it's not violating their right to free speech. When someone says happy holidays, it includes christmas as much as every other winter solstice holiday. You can still pray in schools, because prayer to Yahweh doesn't need to be spoken.

It's most certainly a violation, to sensor any word according to the courts is illegal and that's exactly what they were doing.

Children can pray out loud if it does not disrupt others. I am sure that Little Betty can say whatever prayer she wishes to say over her lunch but the same girl can't stand up in the middle of class and offer a prayer for guidance because it would disrupt the class. That is fair and makes sense.

The only right that religious people have had removed because of paying taxes is the right of pastors/rabbis/Imams etc to urge their congregations to vote for certain politicians.

The tax status of a church or synagogue or coven doesn't have any influence on individuals' rights. The reason that teachers can't lead their students in a prayer to Cthulhu, for example, is because the government can not favor one religion over another. That has nothing at all to do with taxes.