Comments on: “The Church Will Not Lose Its Tax-Exempt Status”

By: Turning Victory to Defeat - IGF Culture Watch

Turning Victory to Defeat - IGF Culture Watch — Mon, 20 Jul 2015 00:55:51 +0000

[…] Via Walter Olson, whether churches could lose tax-exempt status for not embracing same-sex marriage. There are, […]

By: gitarcarver

gitarcarver — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 02:38:05 +0000

“The power to tax is the power to destroy.”

– Daniel Webster

By: great unknown

great unknown — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 16:59:55 +0000

But in Oregon, they could be denied state-tax benefits. Actually, change that “could” to “must”.

By: gasman

gasman — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 16:17:48 +0000

Still, if you want the services of a private organization, you have to sometimes become and act as bona fide member.
For a church, that might mean being a member-in-good-standing; attend services weekly for a year, participate in pre-marital counseling, participate with charitable works and missions of the church, fundraise, and contribute to the coffers.
Seems like a lot of work for a couple who do not adhere to the beliefs or mission of an organization to do just so that at the end they can possibly spring a gotcha lawsuit. Don’t believe a jury would like the idea of moles infiltrating their religious or cultural affinity groups.

All charitable and non profit organizations, whether religious or secular, have requirements of their voluntary members. Nothing says that membership has to be easy. Membership must only not exclude on the protected qualities of the Individual, not the services that a couple or trios might want provided.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:00:22 +0000

Not too sure what significance Prof. Brunson’s analysis has in a judicial climate in which an “Exchange created by a State” means both Exchanges created by a State and Exchanges not created by a State (yes, I read the majority decision. It was gobbledygook).
To cut to the chase, modern federal jurisprudence is an expression of political preference, an exercise of raw power, nothing more.
Since reading Roe v. Wade in school many years ago, I had considered it to be a fluke. It is not.

By: Boblipton

Boblipton — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 10:48:33 +0000

“They won’t come after us, so s**w the other guy.”

Paging Martin Niemoller!

Bob