Ever since 1894 the official federal income exemption tax for religious purposes violates the separation of church and state. Why should non-believers have the entire burden of federal taxes? Today there are churches on just about every street in the United States. Supreme Court justice William O. Douglas v. (Frederick) Walz, decided in 1970 that this division of human beings is unconstitutional according to the first amendment–in making non-believers of one absolutist dominant religion, among thousands of different World religions, pay property taxes–punished for their own faith. (Walz, in real estate, was against the tax commission of New York City. a suit challenging tax exemption for churches.) By making all U.S. religious buildings and their schools required to put solar panels or solar shingles when invented on their structures and windmills protecting birds on their properties, especially mega churches with lots of property-free tax land. This move in the correct direction would help even the score of penalizing non-believers of a vast array of varied persuasions. My suggestion is to call a new Congressional environmental bill the "Stephen Hawking Bill" named for an exceptional intellectual who knew more about the universe and cosmos than perhaps any other person.
H.C. Smith, World Enlighten News, W.E.N.
