Where does this bigoted attitude come from?  If a church were subject to taxes it wouldn't pay any? The Church pays its bills by donations from its parishioners. From there it pays the salaries of its priests WHICH IS TAXED!!!!! It donates nearly all it has to charity. It would have a zero net tax liability in most cases. So this removing their tax exempt status, which isn't nor should it be contingent upon silence, would do nothing.