Will political preachers lose their tax exempt status over Proposition 8? [video]
”We say marriage is ordained by God. If it’s ordained by God, then it’s not something that you or I or anybody else — the state, a judge — can affect and change the definition…. The church must be a voice about moral issues, social issues that affect the lives of pepole. If the church is quiet in that, then the church isn’t doing it’s job. And if it means that the church has to lose it’s tax exempt status to do that, well, then churches will have to lose that in time.”
Monisgnor Francis Cilia declaring that Proposition 8 is different than preaching for particular candidates or parties, and that the 501(c)(3) tax exempt status is worth losing in order to overturn gay marriage. (CBS New video)
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