Eminent domain and churches

While we are discussing the Catholic Social Thought perspective on the takings clause, and the connections between property rights and community, it is worth considering whether the Kelo regime threatens religious communities in a particularly acute way.  After all, church-owned property is tax-exempt, and Kelo stands for the proposition, it appears, that a desire to increase the tax base is a "public use."  Here is a blurb from the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, making just this point (which they also advanced in an amicus brief in Kelo). 

Rick