Hi Joe,

You say "protection of religion and religious views are sacrosanct".  Well, all well and good (at least for those who think that all shades of religious belief, from Rawat to Rajneesh to Bakker should be financially supported by all US citizens), but somewhere down the line one has to confront that fact that Elan Vital gets big tax-breaks from being (in the IRS' eyes) a so-called "church".

Yet it also denies having anything to do with religion or spirituality.

That, to my mind, is a criminal exploitation of tax law.