The Smiley Face That Ate America

November, 2013

The Reverend Barry Lynn of Americans United for Separation of Church and State points out in "God vs. America" (September) that it is against IRS regulations for 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organizations, including churches, to endorse or oppose political candidates. He also notes that the IRS rarely revokes a church's status for vio-lations. But why view the issue so narrowly? Why not tax churches as we do corporations? The Council for Secular Humanism argues that the largest part of most ch...