Bloggingheads: Gay Marriage Strategy
August 20th, 2010
Something submitted by one of our blog friends:
Here is an interesting dialog in the electronic world of the NY Times that you might be interested in.
Sorry that you will be subjected to a commercial to watch it.
Two gay strategists are arguing over making a pitch to religious people to alleviate their concerns. The second strategist says, in effect, we could do that, but that would be a lie.
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Jeff Sharlet is correct, the culture would marginalize Churches that don’t perform Same Sex Marriages.
One point not mentioned is that religious schools schools and charities, that do not embrace Same Sex Marriage would loose their Non-Profit status, and get a huge tax increase. The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in Bob Jones vs. The United States that
1) Bob Jones’ ban on Interracial Marriage was against public policy, and
2) The IRS can revoke the tax exempt status of organizations that are contrary to established public policy.
This could hit a number of religious schools and charities very hard, and either force them to dramaticly down size operations or accomodate same sex couples.
BigWig, why should my tax dollars be used to fund discrimination? LGBT people pay taxes too you know. If public dollars are being given to these institutions, is it really that terrible to expect them to follow the laws and the Constitution? Of course, religious institutions could just fund themselves and stop taking my tax dollars to indoctrinate children. Frankly, if an institution is receiving public taxpayer dollars, it should not be allowed to disseminate ideologies that target a specific class of taxpayers for discrimination. Sorry. I have no problem with these institutions remaining tax-exempt, but I don’t want my dollars being used to fund anti-equality attitudes and practices.