In Tex-ass, you better have GOD in your church
20 May 2004 by RonI knew I shouldn’t have said anything nice about the Unitarians: The Tex-ass State Comptroller’s Office is now denying Unitarian Churches tax-exempt status because the “Unitarian church isn’t really a religious organization” since it “does not have one system of belief.” The Comptroller’s Office’s top lawyer says that “for any organization to qualify as a religion, members must have ’simply a belief in God, or gods, or a higher power’.”
According to the Unitarian Church, this is the first time — in this state or any other — that a government agency denied Unitarians tax-exempt status because of the group’s religious philosophy.
There you go: If it ain’t theism, it ain’t protected religious activity. Read it here (Unitarian group denied tax status), or here (if you don’t want to mess with registration).
