Scripps Howard News Service: "IRS guards line that separates democracy from theocracy
By DAVID WATERS
Scripps Howard News Service
08-MAR-06
In some of the most volatile parts of the world, clerics are the political leaders.
Houses of worship are the hotbeds of partisan political activity.
If the government wants to do something, it needs the approval of Holy Scripture, as interpreted by whichever male figures happen to have the most political power.
Not here. Not as long as the Internal Revenue Service is on the case.
Americans debate whether the thing that separates church and state is a wall, a line or just the figment of some secular humanist's imagination.
In fact, the two forces that keep the church out of the state's business are state 'businesses': the courts and the IRS."
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