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> In a message dated 03/11/09 15:55:44 Central Daylight Time,
> smkrie...@verizon.net writes:
>Marc and Marci - If a congregation registers under the Not for Profit
> Corporation law , does that thereby allow ecclesiastical decisions to be
> subject to approval by lay governance or review
Fair enough. I did not take offense. I haven't seen the full page ad.
Quoting hamilto...@aol.com:
> For the record I was not asking about money. I was just struck by
> the bishops full page newspaper ad and wondered what else they might
> have done in response to a clearly unconstl law..
For the record I was not asking about money. I was just struck by the bishops
full page newspaper ad and wondered what else they might have done in response
to a clearly unconstl law.. No offense at all intended.
Marci
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Thanks, Doug.
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From: Douglas Laycock
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:51:09
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Subject: Connecticut bill
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The american jewish congress also filed a statement opposing the bill.
Unfortunately we were not paid for our efforts either_and we could use the money
Marc stern
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The bishops have their own lawyers. They did not commission the law
professor's letter, and no one but the signers had any input into its content.
Marci, even you agree that this bill was "plainly unconstitutional," so it did
not take a conspiracy of bishops to get me to say so.
If the rea
The more interesting question is why anyone would have proposed such a
patently unconstitutional law. For an apparently well sourced
explanation debunking the claim, already made, that the proposed
legislation was either retribution for the Church's stand on Prop 8,
or part of a larger cul
I would like to ask a point of information on the law profs letter to Conn
legis. I am wondering if it was formally or informally commissioned by the
bishops.
Marci
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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:21:28
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Generally the not for profit corporation leaves so much room to create a
corporate form amenable to one's needs that this should not be a problem
Marc stern
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Having statutes with apparently mandatory organizational provisions directed
at religious organizations is problematic for the reasons Doug and the other
signatories of the Connecticut letter mention. There are subtler but none
the less troubling issues if a state says that a religious organization
I recognize that by black letter law, a church is exempt. However for a church
to secure an actual letter of recognition of exemption from the IRS , I have
always believed there was a requirement to submit a Certificate of
Incorporation (and By Laws), Trust agreement , Constitution or similar
Probably the earliest development of the corporate form in Roman law and
English law was the "corporation sole" that permitted property to pass from one
bishop to the next when the bishop died. This avoided the inheritance problems
that would be present if title were held in the personal name of
Why would being an unincorporated association have any effect on tax status of
a church?
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Marc and Marci - If a congregation registers under the Not for Profit
Corporation law , does that thereby allow e
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