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To: Hubert Few who wrote (26447)	12/3/1998 1:44:00 AM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Hubert, the United Way is also a big source of funding for the Boy Scouts, whose motto is "Any boy can join". They now refuse to allow avowed Atheists to join. It is the only group that may not join. The Girl Scouts have no such prohibition. They will never see another dime from me. Del

To: Hubert Few who wrote (26447)	12/3/1998 5:17:00 PM
From: Sidney Reilly	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

Hubert, It might help to understand the legal reasoning for not taxing churches. Because the power to tax is the power to destroy, it has been deemed an attack on everybody's first amendment rights to freedom of religion to tax any religious organization. It is to protect everybody's rights equally to freedom of religion that the laws exempt churches. If religious organizations were taxed that would be the government interfering with the free exercise of religion which is a constitutional right (constitutional law) whereas the tax codes are only a lesser form of law and I can't think of the exact kind of law right now. Bob