Newsweek: Are Churches Making America Poor?

"The Secular Coalition for America wants the Internal Revenue Service to revoke the tax-exempt status of religious organizations that violate 501(c)(3) rules by, for example, promoting political candidates or not using their funds for charitable purposes...

"The Mormons are far from the only group to get flak on this matter. A 2012 paper in the Rutgers Journal of Law & Religion argued that the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops' 501(c)(3) status should probably be revoked because of their flagrant political lobbying and electioneering - from refusing Holy Communion to pro-choice Catholic pols to issuing partisan voter guides...."

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