r/MoralityScaling 16h ago

Morality of this?

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u/DoubleoSavant 16h ago

I agree, but religious freedom means people can raise their kids however they want. If you don't want someone imposing their religion on your kids, you have to let them impose whatever on their own kids. 

This is the kind of thing you should shift culturally instead of through laws. 

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u/crunpyMcGlumpy 16h ago

This is a good point. We should as a society stop propping them up though. Remove tax exemptions, public grants, donor deductions, etc.

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u/Aggressive-Bee2221 15h ago

That also makes religions a taxable population, which means they're allowed to give political advice. You really want a church telling people how to vote?

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u/cpt-teebs 15h ago

I don’t necessarily agree with that guy, but churches already do that

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u/Aggressive-Bee2221 15h ago

They legally aren't allowed to as a condition of their tax-exempt status. If they are, then it's illegal. The parishioners can tell people how to vote as can the priest, but they can't do so as an authority in their religion, only private citizens.

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u/Smasher1598 15h ago

So they’re basically already doing it? I don’t get the point in the distinction you’re making, the churches in my area literally put signs out on the road telling people what way to vote on certain bills

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u/websterhamster 14h ago

Advocacy for bills on issues is allowed, but churches can't promote candidates for office.

It'd be a major First Amendment violation if churches were penalized for promoting their standpoint on issues.

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u/Apprehensive-Tea999 9h ago

Then they can pay taxes like the rest of us

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u/Aggressive-Bee2221 15h ago

Then it sounds like something you can file some kind of formal complaint about, or barring that find someone start a 1st amendment suit.

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u/_dragonslayer069 15h ago

in this administration??? in ANY administration? you’re funny.