A federal judge in Wisconsin has ruled that the clergy housing exemption is unconstitutional; the decision is here.
The decision will doubtless be appealed by the Godly — a lot of money is at stake — and there is no telling how an appeals court will rule, or the Supreme Court if it goes that far. Certainly, the matter isn’t all settled.
Longtime Civil Commotion readers know what I think; it’s the same thing the Founders thought.
It is time then, once for all, to end the tax privileges enjoyed by religion and to stop imposing upon American citizens a compulsory duty to support institutions innately opposed to reason, hostile to American ideals, morally responsible for Niagaras of bloodshed, and destructive of national unity.
Enough.
The public subsidy of religion must end.
Notice this, too: The very people who exact a public subsidy for observance of Bronze Age superstitions are spending small fortunes — much of it made possible by the subsidy — to constrict the lives of gays and transgenders, take away contraception, impose their superstitions on pregnant women, and undermine education. Enough, indeed.