Democratic presidential candidates have spent the year introducing wave after wave of new policy ideas. Some of them are excellent. Others are interesting. And a few would be disastrous. Beto O'Rourke's call last week to deny tax-exempt status to churches and other religious institutions if they oppose marriage equality falls squarely within the last category.
The former Texas representative backed the idea at last week's CNN town hall on LGBT issues. "Do you think religious institutions like colleges, churches, charities—should they lose their tax-exempt status if they oppose same-sex marriage?" moderator Don Lemon asked him. "Yes," O'Rourke quickly replied.
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