Who gets special privileges?
11 October 2006 by CatherineDon’t really feel like posting, but this is something Sean would have wanted to see and discuss on the blog, I think. The first of a four-part series in the NYTimes about how religious organizations benefit from government programs. Taken from the wonderful blog www.redstaterabble.blogspot.com, where we can all keep up with the daily struggle between science and religion in science class (and elsewhere).
We can all keep up with the Times series on their website www.newyorktimes.com. The series is not behind the pay wall, at least not today.
As Exemptions Grow, Religion Outweighs Regulation
11 October 2006, on 6:00 pm
You just had to know that this xian entitlement crap was going to run amok like a sacred cow in a china shop with BushCo and their fundie operatives holding the keys to the country.
(sigh)
I’m curious, does anybody out there in GIFS land know how to found a “church” or other sheltered “faith-based org”? I’d like to get into this tax-free, IRS-evading game.
No joke – I’m in a “hate the game, not the player” frame of mind about this. And I like keeping money rather than giving it to federal leadership that I find personally reprehensible.
I’ve got a name picked out for my church and everything.
Anyone?
11 October 2006, on 6:14 pm
There’s actually a movement in this country to abolish the income tax as the government can’t seem to find the law that says we have to pay them.
11 October 2006, on 7:33 pm
Moehammered
Check here; AH/ can I be reverend Jim?? pretty please?
http://www.rothgerber.com/newslettersarticles/ff026.asp
11 October 2006, on 9:08 pm
Thanks, Jimmer.
Gotta love that part at the end wher they equate the legal definition of a tax exempt church with the definition of pornography.
I’m quickly becoming a fan of The Church of Reality – linked in the GIfS Resources column.
12 October 2006, on 8:26 am
Count me in! How many times would I have loved to be able to go somewhere to a regular meeting of like minded people, as others go to church? This week, especially. Besides, I’m tired of arguing over the “atheism is a religion” crap. Okay, let’s say it is! Our position in re: “god” is no more precarious than theirs; and if anything, a little less. We can claim that the continued silence and disinvolvement of our non-deity confirms our faith.
12 October 2006, on 1:34 pm
Sorry, I was off on the schedule of articles in the NYTimes. The first one was Sunday. The second one is the one I linked in my post. So presumably the series is over, now, but perhaps it’s still on the NYT website.
I’m off to form my church. I wonder if Bobby Henderson gets a tax examption for the FSM ministry. Hope so.
17 October 2006, on 8:27 pm
[...] Update: Catherine had posted about this subject not too long ago here: Who gets special privileges? [...]