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jiminycricket
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Date: May 27, 2013 12:03PM
Satan Claus, thanks for pointing to Grant Palmer at MormonThink.
Anyone who is suspect to "contracts" that GA's sign (especially the 1Qof70 and the top 15) might find this post from Kori interesting:
Excerpt from:
http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,775994,776120“My dad was a church employee for 20 years before he left. I myself did a bit of consulting for them 15 years ago. This is what I have learned myself:
“Intellectual reserve, the legal proprietary arm of the church, makes you sign a contract. You cannot disclose what you did for them, how much you were paid or that you were hired as a contractor (I was). You cannot keep copies of the work, talk or publish it, it is owned it its entirety by the church. General authorities (I don't know of this applies to 2nd quorum of the 70's) sign over their property over to a trust, if you violate your contract they keep your property.
“What I have researched and heard from other ex- leaders:
“Since the time of BY, the church "lends" money to GA's for personal projects. This money is interest free and does not have to be repaid (this is for legal, tax and doctrinal reasons) if you tow the line. If you step out of line it becomes due and it is a lien on your property. Any income from sitting on boards, as director, consultant, etc- which is what the 12 spend most of their time doing, you keep, if you leave, since you are a representative of the church on those boards, you lose and may have to pay back. of course you loose your "living expenses" (60-120K), your access to church property for personal use (Hawaii, Florida, Europe, etc.).
“This is how a "humble" lifelong seminary teacher (BKP) or meager church employee (GBH) can end up as millionaires and pass on significant wealth to family members. If you step out of line, it’s all gone and you are in serious legal trouble.”
EDIT: I just re-read the entire post
http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,775994,776120. You can't make comments on it as it is closed, but still definitely worth reading.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/27/2013 12:13PM by jiminycricket.