fishy999
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Post by fishy999 on Sept 30, 2015 20:57:15 GMT -5
I'll disagree with you there. Most of the properties within my city that are owned by religious organizations are a welcome respite from unrelenting commerce and blight. A bit of Russian sage in late autumn or a flash of evergreen in winter is worth quite a lot to me. Without churches, my city would need a whole lot more parks and public landscaping to be habitable. But for all of those you have another area where churches take up prime real estate and the cities get nothing. They also get the parsonage exemption to what I think is an unlimited amount. Those megapreachers with mansions pay zero property tax. genemcvay.wordpress.com/tag/t-d-jakes/Don't click on that unless you want to be angry
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Tennesseer
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Post by Tennesseer on Sept 30, 2015 21:06:39 GMT -5
But for all of those you have another area where churches take up prime real estate and the cities get nothing. They also get the parsonage exemption to what I think is an unlimited amount. Those megapreachers with mansions pay zero property tax. genemcvay.wordpress.com/tag/t-d-jakes/Don't click on that unless you want to be angry I have far more respect for the padre of a remote Mexican village chapel and its congregants than I do for Jakes, Osteen, Macedo and others, and their jet-set, country club lives.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2015 21:37:33 GMT -5
But for all of those you have another area where churches take up prime real estate and the cities get nothing. They also get the parsonage exemption to what I think is an unlimited amount. Those megapreachers with mansions pay zero property tax. genemcvay.wordpress.com/tag/t-d-jakes/Don't click on that unless you want to be angry Damn that's a profitable business! I think we are in the wrong line of work.
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AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on Oct 1, 2015 15:52:33 GMT -5
I don't think that this case will become an issue unless the parents are unfortunate enough to find a lawyer that will sue the church-affiliated school. If the school isn't part of a voucher program and doesn't accept any type of public money, the parents will almost certainly lose. We have a long tradition in this country of letting religious organizations do pretty much whatever they want to do as long as they are truly separate from the state. I seem to remember a time when black people were excluded from the mainstream Mormon church and most Protestant denominations wouldn't let women preach or ascend to the level of bishop. Those rules didn't change because the gubmint demanded change. Those rules changed because folks within the religious organization decided that they were embarrassing and hard to explain to one's children. Bingo. For whatever reason, the congregation and the leadership decided to change.
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