5.19.2004

Unitarians: Just not good enough for Texas -- providing yet more evidence that Texas is its own little country, the state comptroller has denied a Unitarian church there tax-exempt status, on the grounds that the Unitarians do not have "one system of belief" and therefore aren't really a church. Seems the comptroller's office doesn't like witches, atheists, New Agers, or the Society for Ethical Culture, either, because they do not "mandate belief in one supreme being." Oh, is that the standard for "religion" these days? As the article points out, Unitarianism was good enough for both Presidents Adams...but I guess in the land of President(s) Bush you need a more orthodox approach to make the grade, i.e. go Jesus or go home. Sheesh.

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