Mayor Pete reject Beto's idea of taxing churches

Beto said tax certain churches because of their beliefs. This is a clear violation of the First Amendment and will also come back to bite progressive churches and nonprofits in the ass. Beto did not say tax all churches. (Cue those who will hijack the thread with that related but really not relevant here argument.) Corey Booker agrees with Pete. OP is just being a jackass and making a disingenuous anti-Pete screed.

Tax all religions. Just because they conduct worship services, doesn't mean they're special and above the law. Let their charity organizations stay tax free, but hit the actual corporate bodies with income tax.

That's fine, R2, but you can see why you can't just do what Beto is suggesting. Tax them all or tax none of them; you can't pick based on viewpoint. Beto is a panderer and an idiot. His ideas are all half-baked.

Cue the tax all churches argument at R2. Totally irrelevant to Beto or Pete's stance or OP's remark. But hey, if you've got one idea run with it!

EVERY candidate apart from Beto rejects this plan. In fact, Beto himself walked it back on SOTU after that town hall.

R3: I don't care about Beto, I have made my position and stated my boundaries!

All Beto has going for him is his 10 inch cock .

Also, churches (i.e. places of worship) are not the same as religious charities, adoption agencies etc. These are two different things.

" OP is just being a jackass and making a disingenuous anti-Pete screed. " R1

Expected, but mis-aimed.

My distaste is aimed at all religions, specifically those U.S. ones that dictate state policy. Pete thinks he can balance being openly gay with being "of faith." It's a nice gesture, like hanging a rainbow flag at a "tolerant" Presby etc. branch of what is and will always be a toxic, lying hateful overgrown cult of Jesus fetishist idiots.

The Constitution was created to get a new nation OUT from under the thumb of churches.

It's failing miserably now. No equivocating straight-acting gay candidate will change that.

TAX them ALL.

OP projects all sort of shit onto Pete.

OP, I hate religion as much as you do, but you'd need to change the constitution to enact Beto's (original) plan. And that's just not happening, so let's try and be pragmatic about it.

Do you think Pete will continue talking about his faith when he becomes president? I hope he keeps it to himself after he wins. I don't want to hear all that stuff.

The angry lunatics Dion't usually surface intensely until Saturday...

r12 He hasn't mentioned religion once during the past two debates, so take from that what you will. I think he had to lean into that more at the beginning so straight people wouldn't reject a gay candidate outright.

But yeah, I cringed every time Obama started with church talk, but that goes with the territory, I guess. Pretty sure things will change in the coming decades as religiosity declines further and faith talk starts sunding quaint altogether.