vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
Can you have a group of Teetotallers that actually drinks at their
meetings?
Of course.
If a group claims to be religious but is instead social,
can't you force them to have "truth in advertising"?
Define "religious" or "religion".
So the "religious" group has a pancake breakfast at the local pub.
I remember we used to rent space in the local "Odd Fellows Hall"
and at some point they changed the tax law for them and they sold
the building because they couldn't afford the taxes.
That would be a social club, not a religion.
What if you can show that the groups leaders don't follow the rules
they advertise as those that govern their group.
Walt Disney had a rule that said no male employee could bear a mustache.
So then why didn't he fire himself?
I know courts don't like to get involved in how groups internally
govern themselves, but what if such groups turn out to blatantly
disregard their own advertised purpose of existance? I mean, isn't
such a group just a big tax scam?
Unless they own a building, a group can do as they damn well please with the
approval of it's members.
The taxing jurisdiction could care less what they do as a group.
