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Your Turn / FFRF v Geithner – Parsonage Exemption
« on: November 23, 2013, 12:53:09 PM »
US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin has struck down the housing allowance exemption. The decision can be downloaded here.
“I agree with plaintiffs that §107(2) does not have a secular purpose or effect,” wrote [Judge Barbara B.] Crabb, adding that a reasonable observer would view it “as an endorsement of religion.”
No doubt there will be appeals.
“I agree with plaintiffs that §107(2) does not have a secular purpose or effect,” wrote [Judge Barbara B.] Crabb, adding that a reasonable observer would view it “as an endorsement of religion.”
No doubt there will be appeals.