Will Anti-Gay Church Have Their Tax Exempt Stat Revoked? | Relign Dispatch

Contents:

• THE PANIC OVER CHURCH’ TAX-EXEMPT STAT A GAY-MARRIED WORLD
• BETO THREATENS TAX-EXEMPT STAT OF CHURCH IF THEY DON'T SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
• O'ROURKE SAYS CHURCH AGAST GAY MARRIAGE SHOULD LOSE TAX BENEFS, DRAWS BACKLASH
• WILL ANTI-GAY CHURCH HAVE THEIR TAX EXEMPT STAT REVOKED?
• SCHOOLS FEAR GAY MARRIAGE RULG COULD END TAX EXEMPTNS
• THE MARRIAGE PENALTY: GAY MARRIAGE AND TAX LAW
• LONSBERRY: CHURCH LOSE TAX-EXEMPT STAT FOR OPPOSG GAY MARRIAGE?
• POST-SCOTUS GAY MARRIAGE: RELIG STUTN TAX EXEMPTNS AT RISK

THE PANIC OVER CHURCH’ TAX-EXEMPT STAT A GAY-MARRIED WORLD

Prevly, the feral ernment only regnized gay marriage for tax purpos stat that regnized them as “legal”, but a number of stat had banned gay marriage. In other words, if you are legally married as a gay uple, you n (and mt) now file your tax as “married filg jotly” or (the much ls mon) “married filg separately” stat. “My is gay and he got married years ago, so I looked to the bill.

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BETO THREATENS TAX-EXEMPT STAT OF CHURCH IF THEY DON'T SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE

Here are the top tax ems newly-married, or newly-regnized, gay upl need to know. I’m a gay-rights supporter who was elated by Friday’s Supreme Court cisn — but I honor Sen.

So y, the logic of gay-marriage rights uld lead to a reexamatn of nservative church’ tax exemptns (although, as long as the IRS is aaid of challengg Scientology’s exemptn, everyone else is probably safe).

Read next: Epispalians Vote to Allow Gay Marriage Church Listen to the most important stori of the day Contact at. ”Print Tmp has champned relig liberty, largely wng the evangelil vote 2016, and earlier this year, his admistratn lnched a global effort to crimalize homosexualy. Wrg the Supreme Court majory opn legalizg gay marriage, Jtice Anthony Kennedy emphasized that “religns, and those who adhere to relig doctr, may ntue to advote wh utmost, scere nvictn that, by dive precepts, same-sex marriage should not be ndoned.

O'ROURKE SAYS CHURCH AGAST GAY MARRIAGE SHOULD LOSE TAX BENEFS, DRAWS BACKLASH

(Note: It is entirely possible for someone to believe gay marriage is fe, and to still oppose forcg people who hold strong relig nvictns to participate — but I spect that is where we are headg. And, spe the vocifero objectns to parisons of today’s anti-gay efforts to segregatn, was, fact, a fear that the IRS would crack down on racially segregated schools that mobilized the relig right the 1970s. If the Supreme Court this month fds a nstutnal right to same-sex marriage, the schools say they will have to abandon their polici that prohib gay relatnships or eventually risk losg their tax-exempt relig schools are ncerned that if they ntue to ban gay relatnships, the Internal Revenue Service uld take away their tax-exempt stat as a vlatn of a “fundamental natnal public policy” unr the reasong of a 1983 Supreme Court cisn that allowed the agency to revoke the tax-exempt stat of schools that banned terracial a recent letter to ngrsnal lears, officials om more than 70 schools, cludg Catholic high schools and evangelil lleg, said that a Supreme Court lg approvg same-sex marriage would put at risk all schools “adherg to tradnal relig and moral valu.

“Church lears are worried about this, ” he said, particularly bee “there is a certa obv logic” to Jtice Alo’s he add that was unimagable that any admistratn of eher party would try to ny a tax exemptn anytime soon to a relig stutn based on s views on homosexualy.

WILL ANTI-GAY CHURCH HAVE THEIR TAX EXEMPT STAT REVOKED?

“When gay rights looks like race do today, where you have a handful of crackpots still ristg, ” he said, “you might see an admistratn pickg a fight. Brigham Young Universy’s honor , for stance, bans “homosexual behavr, ” cludg “not only sexual relatns between members of the same sex, but all forms of physil timacy that give exprsn to homosexual feelgs. When a key sectn of DOMA was stck down June, 2013, gay marriage beme ferally regnized.

SCHOOLS FEAR GAY MARRIAGE RULG COULD END TAX EXEMPTNS

Regardls of whether or not same-sex married upl live one of the 17 stat that regnize their marriage, ferally gay married upl are to be treated the same as oppose sex married upl. This means, ferally, gay married upl will now be taxed the same as oppose sex marrieds.

In other words, gay married upl, even those who now live the some 33 stat that do not regnize their marriage, mt pay feral tax acrdance wh the marriage penalty.

THE MARRIAGE PENALTY: GAY MARRIAGE AND TAX LAW

This was the basis of the Supreme Court gay marriage cisn the se of Edh Wdsor, who challenged a $363, 000 tate tax bill after her legal same-sex spoe died 2009. Gay marriage and tax: marriage penalty possible. When to thgs like tate tax, the feral regnn of same-sex marriage will help legally married gay and lbian upl.

LONSBERRY: CHURCH LOSE TAX-EXEMPT STAT FOR OPPOSG GAY MARRIAGE?

WASHINGTON — Legally married same-sex upl may be for a uple of surpris e tax feral tax uld bee more plited for gay married upl who live stat that don’t regnize their the U. And that appli to feral tax, even if the uple is livg a state that do not regnize gay marriage, the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service led. Last month, a feral judge overturned Utah’s ban on gay marriage, and jt last week a feral judge stck down Oklahoma’s ban.

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”Durg an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Unn” on Sunday, Buttigieg, the only openly gay ndidate the 2020 field, rejected O’Rourke’s tax threat.

POST-SCOTUS GAY MARRIAGE: RELIG STUTN TAX EXEMPTNS AT RISK

On CNN the other night, the morator ont of a large dience asked Beto if he would take away the tax-exempt stat of church and private universi that didn’t support gay marriage. It is to make the ernment the monor and approver of relig belief, which would vlate the “tablishment” clse by makg the progrsive support for gay marriage the only ernment-accepted social or relig belief.

Instead of havg a tolerant, diverse society which some people believe gay marriage and some people don’t – unr a legal system that se gay marriage as a nstutnal right – the Democrats sist on a world which even divergent belief is outlawed. And that’s jt over gay marriage. Bee this isn’t about gay marriage, is about relig eedom.