Felix Salmon, here, who seems more interested in retribution against the church than in the money:
'[N]ow that the US government formally recognizes marriage equality as a fundamental right, it really shouldn’t skew the tax code so as to give millions of dollars in tax breaks to groups which remain steadfastly bigoted on the subject. ... [T]he US government subsidizes churches to the tune of many billions of dollars per year by giving them tax-exempt status. One conservative estimate put the sum at $71 billion, but the fact is that no one really knows what the number is. ... We’ll let you practice your bigotry, at least within the confines of your own church. But we’re not about to reward you for doing so.'
Funny he says nothing about de-privileging other nonprofits, of which religious organizations are just a subset. He appears not to like religion very much: His source for the $71 billion figure is secularhumanism.org, run by the Center for Inquiry, a nonprofit dedicated to a secular society and abolishing the tax privileges of religion.
In Felix Salmon's ideal world, some evangelists are to be more equal than others.
