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Originally Posted by Cybermat47
Really? Some might view that as a breach of the 1st Amendment,a clause of which gaurantees Freedom of Religion.
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And freedom
from religion. That's what the religious crowd comfortably forgets to mention time and again. It also is about the obligation of the state to stay out of the business of propagating interests of religious groups and content of religious dogma.
Tax privileges for religious groups, parallel justice systems that replace the law code of the country, and state-collected religion taxes (as in Germany in case of Protestant and Catholic church), also have to go. Everywhere. Members and priests of religions are responsible before the law in the same way anyone else is. Religious groups have to pay the same taxes like anybody else, by the same rules. No public funding for religious institutions, may it be temples, may it be attached social services. Groups and churches have to finance themselves by donations of its members or what the members agree to pay in mandatory membership fees.
No tax evasion for the rich. No special status for the religious. Both are as equal before the law as any ordinary citizen not being rich and not having a club card. No public funding.
And in case I have not said it before: no public funding.
Neither directly nor indirectly.