The appeals court ruled the state violated the church’s First Amendment rights when Montana’s commissioner of political practices at the time, Gordon Higgins, ruled the church became an incidental campaign committee,” “that must report its expenditures to the state, because the church supported a 2004 constitutional initiative defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
BUMMER-
Many athiests beleive churches should pay taxes, but then is that really a good idea? They already appear to hold huge political power as it is.
In 2006, U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy of Missoula ruled against the church. He said in his ruling that “nothing in the First Amendment keeps the state from exercising its regulatory authority over the political process, even when the politicking takes place in the ’sanctuary.”’
BUMMER-
Many athiests beleive churches should pay taxes, but then is that really a good idea? They already appear to hold huge political power as it is.
In 2006, U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy of Missoula ruled against the church. He said in his ruling that “nothing in the First Amendment keeps the state from exercising its regulatory authority over the political process, even when the politicking takes place in the ’sanctuary.”’
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