Mormon Church, Catholic Bishops, Salvation Army and others attack gay marriage in open letter as assault on their government grants, benefits

Their letter is rife with fear-mongering and half-truths like this:

In New Jersey, the state cancelled the tax-exempt status of a Methodist-run boardwalk pavilion used for religious services because the religious organization would not host a same-sex “wedding” there.

Left out: Actually the Methodists only lost about $20,000 of the $500,000 in tax exemptions for their extensive boardwalk properties. And it wasn't because of gay marriage, which wasn't legal in New Jersey, it was because of the state's public accommodations law. And some of the "religious services" conducted in the pavilion were marriages for straights.

A more truthful account of the controversy is here. And a demolition of Fox News' false reporting about the incident is here.

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