In reply to Rev. Steve Andrews.

Pastor Andrews, I hope you're right, but I expect you're not. If you can't prove you are "worthy" of tax exemption as a church, perhaps you won't be "worthy" of any other sort of protection under the freedom of religion and speech clauses of the 1st Amendment. The debate right now is if any for-profit business can be allowed to "discriminate" by not participating in activities its owners or employees consider immoral. The position of the current administration is that governments do NOT have to allow that sort of freedom.

Tax exemption and church status for religious freedom purposes are not exactly the same thing, but they are closely related and may become more so. It seems likely to me that we will eventually find speaking the truth to cost far more than a little income tax.