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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm curious; for the ardent conservative Catholics here:  Say an established US church held a lot of apartment buildings.  And they decided tomorrow that only white people should be allowed to rent those apartments. Would the church be exempt from anti-discrimination laws?  Why not? [/quote]

This doesn't even make sense.

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Ardent Conservative Catholic
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I fundamentally disagree.  All sorts of churches are involved in outside activities, whether that be hospitals, retirement homes, schools, colleges, hotels, etc.  The question is to what extent the operation of these outside activities have to comply with US law, particularly when that law applies to all and is not targeting a specific religion.  What if complying with US law ran counter to fundamental beliefs of that church?  The Mormon Church changed its view on multiple wives because the Courts would not exempt the Mormom Church from US law on multiple wives.  We should draw a distinction between church and its directly religious activities and other outside activities.

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