{"id":46872,"date":"2014-11-14T16:45:35","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T16:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/an_rns_article_on_the_court_decision_to_rejects_atheists_demand_to_end_tax\/"},"modified":"2014-11-14T16:45:35","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T16:45:35","slug":"an_rns_article_on_the_court_decision_to_rejects_atheists_demand_to_end_tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46872","title":{"rendered":"An RNS article on the Court decision to rejects atheists\u2019 demand to end tax-exempt clergy housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal court of appeals rejected a case brought by an atheist organization that would have made tax-exempt clergy housing allowances \u201d\u201c often a large chunk of a pastor\u2019s compensation \u201d\u201c illegal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a great victory for fair treatment of churches,\u201d\u009d said Luke Goodrich, deputy general counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which filed an amicus brief on behalf of pastors from several major denominations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen a group of atheists tries to cajole the IRS into raising taxes on churches, it\u2019s bound to raise some eyebrows,\u201d\u009d he said. \u201cThe court was right to send them packing.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2014\/11\/13\/court-rejects-atheists-demand-tax-clergy-housing\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal court of appeals rejected a case brought by an atheist organization that would have made tax-exempt clergy housing allowances \u201d\u201c often a large chunk of a pastor\u2019s compensation \u201d\u201c illegal. \u201cThis is a great victory for fair treatment<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46872\">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":[48,39,40,42,425,149,168,114,435,155,184,108,587,584,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-atheism","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-faiths","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-taxes","category-the-u-s-government","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46872","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=46872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}