"The New York Same-Sex Marriage Vote" Revisted, #2

On 28 June 2011, I posted "The New York Same-Sex Marriage Vote" and promised, "More on tax-exempt status, homosexuality, persecution, and marriage later."  Today, tax-exempt status.

Short of passing "hate-crime" laws outlawing the belief that homosexuality and same-sex marriage are outside of God's will, the main way that opponents of our view might try to fight the church is to threaten to remove the tax-exempt status of our churches.

A way in which churches can fight this interference in their affairs is to be pre-emptive and renounce their tax-exempt status.  That would immediately remove the government's control of the church's activities.

Of course, this could be abused to institute questionable practices.  Real churches of Christ will not fall into that trap.