Tony Perkins claims churches will lose federal tax exemptions over marriage equality ruling

Located in Greenville, South Carolina, Bob Jones University is a deeply conservative institution catering to fundamentalist Christians. The laundry list of rules students must abide by are laughably archaic. I'm sure it will floor you to learn that Bob Jones University once had a serious problem with racism.

As late as 1971, BJU did not accept blacks into their school. This policy would not change until the IRS threatened to pull their federal tax exemptions over their racially discriminatory admissions policies. At that point, they acquiesced and began enrolling black students with the bizarre caveat that they be married, a requirement not demanded of any other students.

With the Runyon v. McCrary case looming at the Supreme Court in 1975 over racial exclusion in private schools, the University Board of Trustees saw the handwriting on the wall. They authorized a change in policy to admit even unmarried black students prior to the Supreme Court decision. But that wouldn't be the end of their woes with the IRS.

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