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Quoted In The Tax Notes Today Article "Professionals Minimize Koskinen’S Obergefell Statements", Richard Garnett
Quoted In The Tax Notes Today Article "Professionals Minimize Koskinen’S Obergefell Statements", Richard Garnett
Richard W Garnett
Quoted in the Tax Notes Today article "Professionals Minimize Koskinen’s Obergefell Statements," 2015 TNT 170-5 (Sept. 2, 2015). (subscription required) (full text is available through Lexis).
A Quiet Faith? Taxes, Politics, And The Privatization Of Religion, Richard W. Garnett
A Quiet Faith? Taxes, Politics, And The Privatization Of Religion, Richard W. Garnett
Richard W Garnett
The government exempts religious associations front taxation and, in return, restricts their putatively political expression and activities. This exemption-and-restriction scheme invites government to interpret and categorize the means by which religious communities live out their vocations and engage the world. But government is neither well-suited nor to be trusted with this kind of line-drawing. What's more, this invitation is dangerous to authentically religious consciousness and associations. When government communicates and enforces its own view of the nature of religion—i.e., that it is a private matter—and of its proper place—i.e., in the private sphere, not in politics—it tempts both believers and …