Is It Really Paranoia?

Just thinking aloud here.

How much would you like to bet that sometime in the next eight months, the IRS starts taking a close look at the Catholic Church - specifically, how the leadership of every Catholic Church dioceses has "injected" themselves into the political process, possibly in violation of their tax exempt status.

If not in the next eight months... then suppose Obama manages to eke out a victory in November.

Hmmmm.

Nah.

I'm sure that, even given four years, he'd never even consider throwing his former Catholic supporters under the bus.  As long as the Catholic Church adapts its religious and moral teaching to the secular requirements of the government, obviously.

Revoking the Catholic Church's tax-exempt status would also sock them for a good-sized chunk of back taxes, fines, and the like.  Why bother?  I mean, what in the world would the government do with all that money?

I'm sure, too, that the idea of setting some precedents and then using the IRS to punish political opponents is a complete non-starter.  Especially for a president who doesn't have to worry about re-election, and whose former opponents are largely religious conservatives.

Even if there are some issues with the Catholic Church, I'm sure they'll be handled appropriately, after all. Just because one particular group butts heads with the government, that certainly doesn't mean that it's going to spill over and affect freedom in general or anything.

Nah.

I'm absolutely sure that nothing like that could ever happen.