Here we have yet another example of why the Catholic Church should be stripped of its tax-exempt status.
501(c)3 tax exempt organizations, under IRS code, are not permitted to endorse political candidates.
Yet, five former U.S. Ambassadors to the so-called Holy See have endorsed the NOM-pledge-signing Mitt Romney.
Does anybody believe that this endorsement was not vetted by the Vatican?
The Catholic Church blatantly is subverting the political purpose of the restrictions against tax exempt organizations endorsing political candidates.
The end result is nothing less than violations of the separation between church and state.
Archbishop Timothy Dolan notoriously threatened President Obama with “a national conflict between Church and State of enormous proportions and to the detriment of both institutions,” if Obama did not do everything in his power to perpetuate sexual orientation apartheid.
Through the Church’s tax exempt status, gay taxpayers are being forced to subsidize the domestic political meddling of an international anti-gay hate group that endorses political candidates opposed to those gay taxpayers’ inalienable rights under the U.S. Constitution.
The government and the society both are guilty of complacency in the face of the Catholic Church’s abuses of its 501(c)3 tax-exempt status.