Remove religious organizations from 501(c)(3) tax exempt status.

A call to revise the tax code to remove religious organizations from 501(c)(3) tax exempt status. This petition was created in the spirit of Thomas Jefferson's great insight into the issue of religious freedom and the separation of church and state. Jefferson: "Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of an established religion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people, and leads to corruption within religion itself. Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state,' therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society."