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Anyone who needs food can go to a Catholic Charities location that has a food pantry & get it.

So that's as secular as it gets.

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Religious organizations - ALL OF THEM - need to pay taxes.

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Religious organizations - ALL OF THEM - need to pay taxes.

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Ta, Jamie Lynn. We've missed you around here.

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I would say "Great! Now do the criminal organisation known as the "church" of $cientology!"

Except, I don't have to. The courts in the US have stayed on the side of viewing the Co$ as a business. It's the IRS which granted a tax exemption for no published reason. (Oh, and the courts decided that the Sklar case to sue the IRS for viewing the Co$ as tax exempt and other religious groups as not should eb dismissed for lack of standing.)

So, do the IRS next!

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Yeah they know the fucking law.

And they know the Supreme Court does not fucking care.

UGH.

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If it moves, it’s Personal Property Tax. If not, it’s Real Estate Tax.

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Religions are absurd. Tax laws are absurd. People are absurd. the U.S. is absurd.

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So the poor schlub who sweeps the church gets fucked if he gets laid off? How very Christian!

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Hi JLC, long time no see, but us oldsters figured out who you are. Thank you. Also I think all the Catholic justices of the US Supreme Court should recuse themselves from this case when it eventually gets there. What' that you say, there'd only be two left?

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Organized religion is a business. They're selling something.

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I don’t understand why religious organizations are exempt from paying into unemployment insurance.

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Yeah change the law. A court determining what is our is not religious in nature is destined for trouble.

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Mar 20·edited Mar 20

Allegories be flexible like that

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It seems to me that if you must let an employee (someone paid for labor) go then helping them pay their bills with unemployment insurance is the 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 thing to do.

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