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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-20-06 07:35 AM
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37. Churches are not people.
Only people have rights enumerated in the Constitution. Not corporations, not institutions, not churches. The First Amendment thus does not apply to churches.

I'm all for taxing churches should they venture into politics like this. Of course, if you think it's more important that churches pay to participate in politics instead of using that money to, oh I don't know, actually HELP people, more power to ya.
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