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3 Apr 2013, 9:01 pm
In particular, the Court held in Smith that the First Amendment did not create a defense for a Native American Church member who used peyote, an illegal drug, during a religious service. [read post]
5 Mar 2013, 7:00 am
Tax Court faced the question of the extent to which a taxpayer entering an installment agreement for the payment of back taxes should be allowed to continue to tithe to the Mormon Church. [read post]
3 Feb 2013, 6:01 pm
As most readers are probably aware, the past few years have seen considerable media and clinical interest in chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a progressive, neurodegenerative condition linked to, and thought to result from, concussions, blasts, and other forms of brain injury (including, importantly, repeated but milder sub-concussion-level injuries) that can lead to a variety of mood and cognitive disorders, including depression, suicidality, memory loss, dementia,… [read post]
Maryland High Court Says Apartment Building Housing Mormon Ordinance Workers Is A Tax Exempt Convent
24 Jan 2013, 5:41 am
App., Jan. 23, 2013), the Maryland Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, ruled that an apartment complex owned by the Mormon Church used to house a revolving group of ordinance workers who perform religious ceremonies full-time for a two-year period at the Church’s Washington, D.C. [read post]
22 Jan 2013, 9:07 am
His first four students — a Mormon, a Methodist, a Catholic and someone brought up as a Seventh-day Adventist — agree, saying they were drawn to the clinic by the profound questions it raises and the real lawyering it offers, from meeting a potential client to appellate review. [read post]
28 Nov 2012, 5:01 am
” Most Mormons who find money would transfer 10 percent to the church. [read post]
15 Nov 2012, 9:34 am
(Mitt Romney is Mormon.) [read post]
30 Oct 2012, 9:30 am
Despite Bloomberg’s theatrics over the existence of the Romney trust, the Mormon Church isn’t discouraging their use. [read post]
30 Oct 2012, 2:49 am
He used a "charitable remainder unitrust" (CRUT) in a way that alllowed him to use the tax-exempt status of the Mormon Church (his primary charitable beneficiary) to defer taxes for more than 15 years. [read post]
30 Oct 2012, 2:20 am
Bloomberg: Romney Avoids Taxes via Loophole Cutting Mormon Donations, by Jesse Drucker: In 1997, Congress cracked down on a popular tax shelter that allowed rich people to take advantage of the exempt status of charities without actually giving away much money. [read post]
9 Oct 2012, 6:21 am
Mitt Romney is a Mormon, and I suspect he’s one because his father and mother were Mormons. [read post]
13 Sep 2012, 9:08 am
The Southern Poverty Law Center says Klein is a former Marine and religious-right activist who has helped train paramilitary militias at a California church. [read post]
10 Sep 2012, 5:46 am
Even when they might, people and churches have a way of reducing cognitive dissonance, either through individuals ignoring or reinterpreting faith tenets or churches changing their doctrines. [read post]
9 Sep 2012, 6:11 pm
" And here you are, the First Mormon to be the nominee of the Republican Party, you could be the first Mormon president. [read post]
3 Sep 2012, 5:28 am
We were Mormons and growing up in Michigan; that might have seemed unusual or out of place but I really don’t remember it that way. [read post]
31 Aug 2012, 6:59 am
But in the past two weeks, the candidate and his team of advisers have made a dramatic about-face in their approach to the religion question; allowing reporters to tag along with the family at church, instructing surrogates to cooperate with cable news specials about Mormonism, and devoting valuable primetime chunks of the Republican convention to anecdotes about the candidate's church service — an unexpected series of moves that comprise, as one… [read post]
31 Aug 2012, 4:57 am
Reuters reports on the three speakers last night at the Republican National Convention who focused in detail on nominee Mitt Romney's activities as a lay Mormon pastor in a Boston area Mormon church in the late 1970's. [read post]
30 Aug 2012, 9:04 pm
6:30: A Mormon invocation, from Ken Hutchins, thanking God for "the beauty of the heavens and the earth... a lasting testament of Thy love for us. [read post]
28 Aug 2012, 9:27 pm
And the most logical way to show him not to be a pitiless capitalist would be to emphasize the charitable good works he has undertaken on behalf of his church, but because his campaign fears anti-Mormon prejudice, that too must be glossed over. [read post]
28 Aug 2012, 2:38 pm
Here, as also reported by JTA, is the line-up of clergy:Tuesday invocation-- Rabbi Meir Soloveichik (Director of the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University)Tuesday benediction-- Sammy Rodriguez (President of The National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference)Wednesday invocation-- Ishwar Singh (head of the Sikh Society of Central Florida)Wednesday benediction-- Archbishop Demetrios (Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in America)Thursday… [read post]
