Mission churches to city: Stop hitting us with the driveway tax

Two Kansas churches are giving the city of Mission a lawsuit for Christmas. The Alliance Defense Fund, sort of the Christian right’s ACLU, has filed suit on behalf of the First Baptist Church of Mission and the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas in an effort to get out of paying the so-called driveway tax the city imposes.

When the town’s City Council approved the “transportation utility fee” (officials get pissy if you call it a tax), which collects money for road repairs, one of the more noteworthy things to bemoan was that non-profits like churches and schools were not exempted. This means churches could end up owing big bucks, and these churches aren’t interested in giving to Caesar’s what is Caesar’s.