Beto O’Rourke, the former El Paso congressman turned presidential candidate, is quickly becoming an albatross around the neck of Democrats the nation over by loudly and proudly taking the positions progressives had always insisted were straw men from the fevered imaginations of the right. In an exchange at the CNN LGBTQ Town Hall on October 10, the anchor Don Lemon asked Beto O’Rourke whether churches, charities and schools that oppose same-sex marriage should lose their tax-exemptions. Beto replied:
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Beto's church tax threat will be an albatross for Democrats
Jordan Bloom
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