The core issue is taxation and exemption from it, versus the core civil rights of the individual to speak and assemble freely.

I think the sane resolution of this is to cancel ALL tax exemptions, imposing instead a very low baseline tax rate of, say, ten percent, against all net revenues, with strong (but only civil) penalties for abuse.

A consitutional principle of great importance, such as the separation of church and state, is difficult to enforce directly, because there are weasels on all sides always ready to twist and distort things for their own benefit. The art is to reflect them in enforceable laws, such as the tax code.


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