On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 13:20:19 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2020-10-10 10:27 a.m., Lucretia Borgia wrote:
>> On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 09:57:16 -0400, Gary > wrote:
>
>>> These religious people need to keep this within their churches.
>>> Trying to influence politics now, they should lose their tax
>>> free status first. Then all be shot!
>>
>> Years ago, before computers at home, I wrote a letter to the local
>> newspaper saying the churches should pay taxes like the rest of us,
>> mostly because the RC church had just made a financial killing selling
>> a property mid-downtown where they had a monastery originally.
>
>I am an atheist who is not in favour of taxing churches. I consider them
>to be community property. They are gathering places for people.

So is the local McDonalds.