A Modest Mormon Proposal

The Mormon religion says I'm going to hell, and my religion says they're a cult. So, I lose my right to marry and they lose their religious tax status, right?

A lot of religions, starting with Catholicism, think that Mormons are cultists, what with thinking Jesus is the brother of the devil and that Jesus married him mom, Mary, and two other women. So why isn't granting Mormons tax exempt religious status a violation of the religious beliefs of Catholics and other Christians? The state is quite literally legitimizing, and subsidizing, what many other religions consider a cult. Clearly that's against the religious beliefs of many Americans. (And while we're at it, the Baptists think that Catholics worship Satan - quite literally - so doesn't it impinge on the beliefs of Baptists to grant "religious" status to Catholics, and vice versa?) And how is any of this different from the state legitimizing, but not subsidizing, the marriage of gay couples?

We're told that gay marriage is against God (though several mainstream religions permit the marriage of gay couples). But regardless, since when are we in the business of codifying religion into law? And now that we apparently are, why are some religions more equal than others? Surely we can agree, that if only majority religious views are to be favored in US law, then Catholicism certainly counts, Baptists may have some convincing to do, and Mormons, well they've got a long way to go before they approach the numbers of any kind of majority anywhere outside of Utah.

So, using Mormon and religious right logic, shouldn't we at least put the rights of Mormons (and religious right Republicans) up to a majority vote? If the Mormons can convince 51% of Americans that they're not a cult, and that their views of Jesus and the forced conversion of Jewish Holocaust victims to Mormonism should be subsidized by the American taxpayer, then they get their tax exemption. Isn't anything else un-democratic?