BostonHerald.com - Opinion & Letters: State role in church regs intrusive: "State role in church regs intrusive
By Diane Kessler
Monday, August 15, 2005
The phrase ``blinding anger'' is appropriate to describe the energy that many Roman Catholics are caught up in as the Legislature considers Senate Bill 1074, ``An Act Relative to Charities in Massachusetts.''
This legislation would require all religious bodies – churches, synagogues, temples, mosques – to report their finances and real estate holdings to the state attorney general. The potential impact on other religious bodies is an afterthought, captured by the oft-used phrase ``non-Catholic,'' as if these other churches and people of other faiths have no identity other than a derivative one. Yet serious principles of religious liberty are at stake here. "
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