I'm going to quote you in reverse order.
pimpdave wrote:What do you guys think?
You're a pimp, Dave.
pimpdave wrote:But maybe the real problem is the Tea Party, and their efforts to politicize churches and use them so freely in their campaign to ruin America.
Political Chruches on the right is like a Bible Belt thing. It predates the Tea Party by Decades. Political Churches on the left also predate the Tea Party and are obviously not related to them in any way.
By the way, the article doesn't mention why enforcement stopped. You want to hear a good joke? Under the law, the duty to enforce the tax code was given to the regional manager. Under the law created shortly after Obama came into office regional managers were eliminated as a cost cutting measure. The courts maintained that the enforcements were invalid because they were not approved by the non existant regional managers. Nothing to do with the tea party.
pimpdave wrote:Some of you may read this article and say, "Hey, let's just stop allowing churches to rob us blind, and allowing the Catholic Church in particular to keep buying up so much land. That's a gross abuse of their tax exempt status, when it's possible for a cult of radicals who believe in a sky wizard and are constantly in trouble for child rape can be the largest land owner in Maryland. It's time we tax them."
Up until the Obamacare provision that forced church related organizations (who are self insured) to provide abortion / abortifactant coverage the Catholic Chruch has generally leaned strongly to the left especially on Social Issues. In fact it initially supported Obamacare. Like the Tea Party you seem to be connecting two things that are absolutely unrelated to the article. In addition the Catholic Church goes out of its way to be apolitical, even to the point of refusing to condemn politicians who flat out tell falsehoods about what the church teaches and do actions that automatically carry sentences of excommunication.