As gay-rights advocates continue demonstrating against the Mormon church, some saying the religious denomination crossed a church- state line and should be stripped of its tax-exempt status, experts say the church was well within its rights to act in support of California's gay-marriage ban, Proposition 8. Any religious group has as much freedom as they want to argue for or against these public-policy issues," said Charles Haynes, a senior scholar with the First Amendment Center in Arlington, Va.
This analysis scrutinizes the policy behind the restriction that churches "must not devote a substantial part of their activities to attempting to influence legislation" and presents a practical approach to interpreting this restriction. This Comment argues that a proper interpretation of the lobbying restrictions should never control or attempt to define the proper relationship between a church and its members. Specifically, Congress, the IRS, and courts should clarify or otherwise narrowly interpret the lobbying restrictions to allow churches to speak out on important issues of public policy and communicate freely with church members regarding those issues. Churches seeking to retain an independent voice in shaping public policy need not fear the empty threats of separationist groups ...
... on the IRS "to investigate whether the Mormon Church violated its tax-exempt status by getting d...
For several years now, experts in both law and religion have been warning of a coming clash between the same-sex "marriage" campaign and religious liberty. Some incidents have already illustrated this problem - such as Catholic Charities being forced out of the adoption business in Massachusetts. However, nothing has demonstrated this danger more clearly than the extreme reactions to the victory of California's marriage amendment, Proposition 8. The protests against Proposition 8 have been vehement - even violent. When a woman in Palm Springs tried to counter some demonstrators, they knocked a large cross out of her hands and stomped on it. Vandalism began before the election, with the defacing or destruction of yard signs and attacks on cars and has continued after, with churches that ...
... target of these demonstrators has been the Mormon Church. The Mormon Church and many individual Morm... rationale for this is a belief that tax-exempt churches should not speak out with respect to elec...
... . The Church of Scientology (Church) provides "auditing" sessio... alleged only that their payments are fully exempt from a quid pro quo analysis - not that some porti...Mormons must tithe their income as a necessary but not suf...
...'s acquisition of the property, to exempt lands acquired under the homestead laws from previ...244 , 271 (1901). See also Mormon Church v. United States, 136 U.S. 1 , 14 (1890); I...
LETTERS BILL'S FAILURE WON'T STOP DOMESTIC-PARTNERSHIP DEBATE
...Why do our elected legislators let a church lobbyist decide how they are to vote? Does the chu... groups are permitted to maintain their tax-exempt status while they're actively involved in influenc... bill here in New Mexico, while the Mormons and many other Christian groups lobbied hard in Ca...
... Revenue Service to revoke the church's tax-exempt status. . Such demands are unlikely to bear fruit....
... liability under 702 of the Act, which exempts religious organizations from Title VII's prohibiti... religious association sometimes called the Mormon or LDS Church.[Footnote 3]. Appellee Mayson worke...
The intent of a statutorily imposed nondiscrimination condition is not to control or regulate religious beliefs, but to eliminate the use of tax-deductible dollars, and other benefits received by religious organizations pursuant to § 501(c)(3), to support or maintain discrimination against members of society. Because this Article focused on religious organizations and churches, its proposal creates many challenges, primarily constitutional in nature.
..., Presbyterian, Eastern Orthodox, and Mormon denominations, the faith and internal religious la...
Valerie Richardson's article ("Pestered Prop 8 donors file suit," Page 1, March 23) reported that a lawsuit was filed to protect the identities of people making contributions of $100 or more on ballot issues concerning the status of same-gender relationships. Mrs. Richardson is too quick to quote Fred Karger, who said, among other things, that the lawsuit was being pushed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints "to conceal its financial stake in the campaign." Mr. Karger's diatribes against Mormons who supported the passage of Proposition 8 in California are legion, and his claim that Mormons accounted for 80 percent of the $39.4 million raised is wildly exaggerated. As to Mr. Karger's claim that the Mormon Church is behind the new lawsuit, church officials claim they were no...
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