My Response to Kenn Gividen:
It goes back to the debate of which clauses of the first amendment trump other clauses of the first amendment or the constitution and other amendments. Is it an issue of freedom of association, establishment of religion rather than practice of, or property rights issues?
It is not so much that gay rights or a 'gay agenda' is the issue but the courts and the legislatures are not clarifying all of the issues when they change, or invalidate rightfully so, the laws.
So there is now this whole cavern of unanswered questions as to rights both of the individual and the church and the property owner and the state.
Then again I believe Churches should pay a base level (not for the buildings but the acreage) of property taxes and contribute back to the community services it uses so freely and then complains when the community or an individual who is a taxpayer asks for something in return from that property.
Tax free property is a privilege given by the people not (just) a right given by law, somewhere along the way the Church has forgotten the difference.
Respectfully,
MRev. Kenneth White, Jnr.
Reformed Catholic Bishop
Fort Wayne, Indiana
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