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hedgie:
I got ordained online, so I use the title "reverend" when writing to congresscritters, in hope that they're more likely to listen.
Case:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 29 Apr 2019, 11:20 ---I got ordained online, so I use the title "reverend" when writing to congresscritters, in hope that they're more likely to listen.
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You what?
Errrrrh, I mean to say:
You what, Reverend?
hedgie:
The Universal Life Church offers free online ordinations. I did it so that I could officiate a wedding if need be.
Morituri:
We have, somewhere downtown, a place that purports to be a temple of Inanna.
Whatever. Religion is weird and neopagans are happy that way.
Inanna, as a little history tidbit, was the Goddess of Love and War for the ancient culture of Sumer. Her rituals included temple prostitution and the duties of her clergy included the care of injured soldiers. Nothing wrong with that, I guess, it sort of makes sense. And to be clear I don't really know what the local devotees are up to, so this is very likely not to be relevant to them in any way. But I can imagine a modern interpretation of this where they operate a brothel and contribute a share of the income to, say, the Veterans' Hospital.
One would probably be able to defend prostitution under US law as an exercise of religious freedom - first-amendment federal guarantees of rights are considered superior to state laws, and there is no federal law against prostitution. As a charitable institution it would probably be organized as a subchapter S corporation under the law. Subchapter S means they would be able to accept tax-deductible payments and, among other things, that if the employees or principals of the corporation engage its services or purchase its products that is also a tax deductible expense for them.
All of which leads to the question: If a pair of their employees have sex with each other, has a tax-deductible event occurred even though the net payments (assuming their services are charged at the same rate) total zero?
Tova:
Probably falls under "informal exchange of similar services on a noncommercial basis." So not taxable or tax deductible.
Disclaimer: I don't know what I'm talking about, that was just the result of an idle google.
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