{"id":41233,"date":"2013-11-25T17:15:23","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T17:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_wisconsin_ruling_saying_clergy_housing_allowance_unconstitutional_getting\/"},"modified":"2013-11-25T17:15:23","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T17:15:23","slug":"a_wisconsin_ruling_saying_clergy_housing_allowance_unconstitutional_getting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41233","title":{"rendered":"A Wisconsin Ruling saying Clergy Housing allowance unconstitutional getting Lots of attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can find the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/186404063\/FFRF-v-Geithner-Parsonage-Exemption\">actual ruling here<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/host.madison.com\/wsj\/news\/local\/judge-strikes-down-law-that-gives-clergy-members-tax-free\/article_b8b1c816-bd2b-5f46-9d5a-68c5ad0ed39d.html\">Wisconsin State Journal article about it there<\/a>. The Wisconsin State Journal article begins as follows: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A federal judge has found unconstitutional a law that lets clergy members avoid paying income taxes on compensation that is designated part of a housing allowance.<\/p>\n<p>The decision Friday by U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb could have far-reaching financial ramifications for pastors, who currently can use the untaxed income to pay rental housing costs or the costs of home ownership, including mortgage payments and property taxes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> You should read it all as well as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2013\/11\/24\/a-federal-judges-significant-decision-clergy-tax-free-housing-is-not-constitutional\">Religion News Service article<\/a> there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can find the actual ruling here and the Wisconsin State Journal article about it there. The Wisconsin State Journal article begins as follows: A federal judge has found unconstitutional a law that lets clergy members avoid paying income taxes<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41233\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,40,50,209,149,168,133,114,435,184,151,108,441,587,584,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-law-legal-issues","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-stewardship","category-taxes","category-the-u-s-government","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}