Are religions that preach inequality for women and gays, traitors to their country?

[Angrboda]

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.

I wasn't arguing that a successful argument for termination of the church's subsidy that wouldn't impact other organizations could not be made, so your complaint is irrelevant. I also wasn't saying anything about greater scrutiny and 501c3 compliance either, so that, too, is irrelevant. And I wasn't even remotely discussing behaviors inside or outside the church which can be considered criminal. That, too, is irrelevant. Your entire response is irrelevant to our discussion.

However, if posting irrelevant red herrings and digressions meets some emotional need you have, I'm certainly willing to support that in the interest of bonhomie and esprit de corps.