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Why are churches "special"?
I mean, why are they distinct from any other private property?
True, many churches are held as community property, collectively owned by the congregation, and others are the property of a diocese/synod/district/whatever, but still...
why are the lawful owners and/or their representatives (IE, those who worship there), denied by law the authority to decide this for themselves?
Just because they're churches???
That's as stupid as saying that one cannot legally carry in a donut shop. Or a porn store, for that matter. Churches are clearly special in the eyes of their congregants, and may (or may not) be so in the eyes of the/a/an/none deity, (a question that nobody here on Earth is qualified to answer,) but in the eyes of the law?
Color me confused.
--Shannon
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