{"id":70918,"date":"2018-05-07T13:04:44","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T17:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70918"},"modified":"2018-05-07T17:29:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T21:29:27","slug":"forbes-religious-organizations-rally-to-preserve-favorable-tax-treatment-of-clergy-housing-allowances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70918","title":{"rendered":"(Forbes) Religious Organizations Rally To Preserve Current Tax Treatment Of Clergy Housing Allowances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<span class=\"tweet_quote\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fpeterjreilly%2F2018%2F05%2F06%2Freligious-organizations-rally-to-preserve-favorable-tax-treatment-of-clergy-housing-allowances%2F&amp;text=Wonderful%20thing%20about%20case%20-%20%20brings%20different%20faith%20communities%20together%20in%20desire%20to%20protect%20cherished%20tax%20benefit.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fpeterjreilly%2F2018%2F05%2F06%2Freligious-organizations-rally-to-preserve-favorable-tax-treatment-of-clergy-housing-allowances%2F&amp;text=Wonderful%20thing%20about%20case%20-%20%20brings%20different%20faith%20communities%20together%20in%20desire%20to%20protect%20cherished%20tax%20benefit.\">wonderful thing about this litigation is how it brings different faith communities together in their desire to protect their cherished tax benefit.<\/a><\/span>\u00a0Not yet available is the brief from the following amici &#8211;\u00a0Christian Legal Society, Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations, National Association of Evangelicals, Lutheran Church&#8211;Missouri Synod, Council of Churches of New York City,\u00a0 and Queens Federation of Churches.\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/peterjreilly\/2014\/04\/10\/clergy-out-in-force-to-defend-their-housing-tax-break\/#5f9ef8164599\" target=\"_self\">Last time around\u00a0<\/a>there was a brief that included The Ethics &amp; Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Commission (Southern Baptists, the second largest denomination in the United States probably have the most skin in this game) and\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The International Society for Krishna Consciousness and The Islamic Center of Boca Raton.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/peterjreilly\/2018\/05\/06\/religious-organizations-rally-to-preserve-favorable-tax-treatment-of-clergy-housing-allowances\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0wonderful thing about this litigation is how it brings different faith communities together in their desire to protect their cherished tax benefit.\u00a0Not yet available is the brief from the following amici &#8211;\u00a0Christian Legal Society, Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, Union<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70918\">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":[168,133,600,161,114,593,151,108,587],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-inter-faith-relations","category-law-legal-issues","category-personal-finance","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70918","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=70918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70920,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70918\/revisions\/70920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}