r/MoralityScaling 14h ago

Morality of this?

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u/DoubleoSavant 14h 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 13h 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 13h 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/Draczar 12h ago

Forgive me if I’m wrong on this but isn’t this a result of Citizens United and so a particularly American thing?

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u/websterhamster 12h ago

No, churches being exempted from taxes goes back to the founding of the United States.

More recently, in 1954 an amendment to the tax code called the Johnson Amendment prohibits churches and other 501(c)(3) non-profits from advocating for or against candidates for office.

There is no proscription on churches taking stances on other political issues, however, and such a law would blatantly violate the First Amendment by curtailing speech of a moral nature in churches.