These are nonprofits registered as religious organizations. The first three are Corporate Soles: Harrie A. Schmidt Jr., state chairman of the Populist Party, which is run nationally by Ku Klux Klan leader Kim Badynski. Glen Stoll, a Populist Party member who also is involved in the Embassy of Heaven, an anti-government religious organization based in Sublimity, Ore. Stoll was the leader of
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What you are talking about is minor consequences. The loss of tax deductions to donors is a major consequence, as is loss of federal education grants. The main reason for nonprofit status is the collection of money affording a charitable deduction to the donor. Income tax and local property tax are immaterial in comparison to the loss of donations.
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SLDrone - I was posting on the board here some years ago when you first posting here. I have the greatest respect for you and your history. Mine is not incredibly different. I am sorry if I stepped on the points you were trying to make in any way. guynoirprivateeye - as far as I am concerned you still have the Mormon problem of needing to be right in the face of hard evidence. Be happy i
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Initial letters went out concerning Bob Jones in the early to mid 1970's. Read the case and comments. It most certainly was a part of the decision. If the Mormon Church had not resolved the case before the final decision, they would have IMMEDIATELY lost their tax exemption, as did Bob Jones University. The fact that it took 13 years to work its way through the courts is not of consequence.
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Here is a little more of the paper I wrote In 1969 Hugh B. Brown actively lobbied to allow blacks to receive the priesthood. This was supported by a majority of the apostles. They formed a “special committee was to report on the Negro situation”. The change was approved while Harold B. Lee was absent. Upon his return he rejected the decision and persuaded the quorum to rescind the vote
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The Bob Jones case was decided in 1983. The discrimination at Bob Jones was not allowing the dating of a black athlete and a white coed, not admissions. Read the case and learn something. You are obviously not old enough to know. I was in South America on my mission in 1978. I attended the temple dedication and was a temple officiator when the Sao Paulo temple opened. I received my Masters
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Bob Jones University is a private Baptist university. This is part of something I wrote in 2005. As is explained below, institutions of higher learning are not religious organizations per se. "The Government's fundamental, overriding interest in eradicating racial discrimination in education substantially outweighs whatever burden denial of tax benefits places on petitioners' exercise
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This is from a Mormon Missionary publication by David G. Stewart, Jr., MD "A closer examination of growth and retention data demonstrates that LDS growth trends have been widely overstated. Annual LDS growth has progressively declined from over 5 percent in the late 1980s to less than 3 percent from 2000 to 2005. Since 1990, LDS missionaries have been challenged to double the number of ba
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As has been said. This is privately funded and volunteer administrators. If you are unhappy, find another board or start your own. I have been here off and on for years. You aren't going to change it, no matter how much you stamp your feet and have a tantrum.
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It is a matter of band width. Bigger threads require more band width from the server. The software used on this forum is also chosen for the amount of band width it requires. That is why there are no graphics etc.
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Threads close at about 30 posts. If you want it to continue and say in the line - continued from Paul Dunn post. The Paul Dunn thread had 39 posts.
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Louisville Kentucky here. I go to the Kentucky Derby, Oaks Day celebration and was at the track to celebrate Mothers Day and Thanksgiving last year. Anyone interested in this year's Derby? Oaks is May 6th and Derby May 7th this year.
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I wrote this originally about 4 years ago. I have checked and updated the links. I have found that discussions with TBMs about Freemasonry fall in three general categories, so I have addressed each in separate sections 1. Joseph Smith was not a Freemason 2. Freemasonry is a corrupt temple ceremony and dates to the Temple of Solomon 3. The temple ceremony and Freemasonry are completely d
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Some former Mormons get a little side tracked with conspiracy theories. Here is my take on it all. http://www.eclectech.co.uk/images/mindcontrol.swf
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Adam brought from another planet Brigham Young, Discourses of Brigham Young, vol. 7, p. 286 Here let me state to all philosophers of every class upon the earth, when you tell me that Father Adam was made as we make adobes from the earth, you tell me what I deem an idle tale. When you tell me that the beasts of the field were produced in that manner, you are speaking idle words devoid of meaning
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A nonprofit can have for profit ventures which pay taxes as for profit businesses. These businesses are separate entities and pay taxes as any other corporation or other legal entity would. The nonprofit is a separate legal entity and is viewed separately. Ownership in a for profit in no way affects or impinges on the nonprofit. A nonprofit can engage in for profit activities, but those are rec
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Political yes, but concerning Beck Clay Bennett reveals where Beck gets his material http://eightfits.blogspot.com/2011/02/cartoonist-clay-bennett-reveals-glenn.html
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In the mid 1980s they stopped tracking baptisms at all. It was Children of Record, and all evidences are that the children are counted even if they are never baptized. The overwhelming evidence is they are significantly under counting deaths, resignations and excommunications as well.
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The trolls really get ridiculous this time of year. We have someone claiming to not be Mormon, but knows not only what a stake is, but how many there are in Tijuana. One post with the name. No history what so ever. How stupid do they think we are? I get this every day on my YouTube videos.
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One last graph. This compares membership growth (convert baptisms + children) against US birth rates. They are still separate, but the trend is evident. http://jhuston.com/Membership%20gain.pdf
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David O McKay. He established the PR department and expanded the missionary program. He was the "every member a missionary" guy. Hard line beliefs started to be looked at. Gordon B Hinckley ran the PR department at that time. When he became a counselor in the First Presidency (1981), Spencer Kimball was incapacitated and so Hinckley pretty much ran the church. He was the one to ta
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Districts are areas that don't have enough people to have a stake. "Stakes are created from mission districts or by dividing existing stakes. In the United States and Canada, stakes generally should have a minimum of 3,000 members and five wards. In all other countries, stakes generally should have a minimum of 1,900 members and five wards. There is no fixed minimum number of members or b
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here is the link http://jhuston.com/Internet.pdf
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In the mid 1980s they changed and started counting Children of Record instead of baptisms. That is the only change I am aware of. They are really tight lipped about where the numbers come from. The only thing I can come up with is 1990 may have been when they changed their database to count missing members to age 110. I don't have anything to back that up, but that would have made a huge diffe
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