After a busy weekend, we cats are finally catching up to comment on the pending Supreme Court free-speech case involving the Fred Phelps "church." You know the dirtbags who show up at soldiers' funerals.
We have no doubt that these foul cretins comprise an anti-gay, anti-Semitic hate group, but we wonder whether going after them by denying them their lawful First Amendment rights is wise. Not to mention a losing battle. Make no mistake, we resent them — but not the fact that the Constitution protects their right to despise and defile.
Rather, our question is this: Why hasn't anyone questioned whether this group of haters has the right to be tax-exempt as a church? (Of course, we cats don't believe in churches being tax-exempt in the first place, but that's a subject for another post.) At the very least, the Internal Revenue Service should be all over these Phelps clowns' finances. If they're hiding assets and income in a tax-free shelter, we cats say, throw the book at 'em.
Maybe even the Good Book. After all, the Phelpses deserve to be clobbered with a few Bibles — since they obey none of the commandments contained therein.
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