Even worse though is that Comrad Obama supports “Faith-Based-Initiatives” and wants to raise the initiative to $500 million per year.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/07/01/obamas-faith-based-mission/

http://pewforum.org/religion08/compare.php?Issue=Faith__Based_Initiatives

Well, no worry. The Supreme Court has already ruled on this…

In its 1970 opinion in Walz vs. Tax Commission of the City of New York, the high court stated that a tax exemption for churches “creates only a minimal and remote involvement between church and state and far less than taxation of churches. [An exemption] restricts the fiscal relationship between church and state, and tends to complement and reinforce the desired separation insulating each from the other.” The Supreme Court also said that “the power to tax involves the power to destroy.” Taxing churches breaks down the healthy separation of church and state and leads to the destruction of the free exercise of religion.

http://tinyurl.com/4lwult

The one and only time I appeared on CNN was in 1997 when I and over 100 other American Atheists picketed the Promise Keepers’ Stand in the Gap rally at the National Mall in Washington DC. I got on CNN for about 4 seconds, standing next to Dave Silverman and a few other hardcore AA activists, and we were all yelling “TAX THE CHURCH! TAX THE CHURCH!”

Hey that’s not bad for me, since I had been active in the movement for only a year before that. )

I’m proud to say that a copy of that CNN report is safely stored in the American Atheist Center video archive. )

Joe Zamecki
Austin, TX

I was at that event also…

Maybe you can see me standing next to 1,000,000 brothers of mine….

http://www.rain.org/~mkummel/stumpers/18jan02c.jpg