RE: Are religions that preach inequality for women and gays, traitors to their country?
January 12, 2021 at 1:46 pm
(This post was last modified: January 12, 2021 at 1:58 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I don't think that GIA makes a competent argument for the position that something should be done about tax exempt status and particularly with respect to any religion which could be credibly described as harmful, dangerous, or in a meaningful sense traitors to their country or to the ideals of their country.
GIA doesn't make one, but that doesn't mean that there isn't one to be had. Greater scrutiny on c3s doesn't help me in any way. If it could do anything to me, it could only harm me. I, however, like the vast majority of c3s, am compliant...and doing none of those sorts of things we're discussing as a cause for reform. Those sorts of things are already either criminal, or advocates insist that their factual character is such that they should be and seek to make it so.
If it somehow improbably came to be that I and that vast majority of others had an issue - there is already a process for remedying compliance.
This is not an argument for why GIA is correct, if that's what you'd thought. It is the explanation for why your comments about harm to desired services are in error. There are certainly issues surrounding reform. This isn't one of them, and, honestly, if it is, that's just the mob extorting us as usual - and why would that matter to our laws? If we're being extorted by a group we subsidize, those funds are better used directly providing the service.
-and if I've misunderstood those comments, ofc, I apologize.
GIA doesn't make one, but that doesn't mean that there isn't one to be had. Greater scrutiny on c3s doesn't help me in any way. If it could do anything to me, it could only harm me. I, however, like the vast majority of c3s, am compliant...and doing none of those sorts of things we're discussing as a cause for reform. Those sorts of things are already either criminal, or advocates insist that their factual character is such that they should be and seek to make it so.
If it somehow improbably came to be that I and that vast majority of others had an issue - there is already a process for remedying compliance.
This is not an argument for why GIA is correct, if that's what you'd thought. It is the explanation for why your comments about harm to desired services are in error. There are certainly issues surrounding reform. This isn't one of them, and, honestly, if it is, that's just the mob extorting us as usual - and why would that matter to our laws? If we're being extorted by a group we subsidize, those funds are better used directly providing the service.
-and if I've misunderstood those comments, ofc, I apologize.
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