Salem's Satanic Temple: IRS has designated it a tax-exempt church

[sandensea]

The Satanic Temple says it’s been designated a church by the Internal Revenue Service.

The Salem, MA-based organization provided The Associated Press with a notice it recently received communicating its new tax-exempt status. The letter used a code that classifies it as a “church or a convention or association of churches.”

The group is now listed in an IRS database for tax-exempt organizations. An email seeking comment was sent to the IRS.

The group says the designation will help in religious discrimination legal cases and allow it to pursue faith-based government grants.

The “non-theistic” group advocates for a stricter separation of church and state. It placed a statue of the goat-headed creature Baphomet at the Arkansas State Capitol last year to call for the removal of a Ten Commandments monument.

At: https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2019/04/25/salems-satanic-temple-irs-has-designated-it-a-tax-exempt-church

A statue of Baphomet at last year's free speech rally outside the Arkansas State Capitol.

The IRS today conferred the Satanic Temple the same tax benefits it has long afforded the likes of Jerry Falwell, Joel Osteen and Benny Hinn.

[jmowreader]

1. Tomorrow morning Trump will fire the IRS Commissioner

[sandensea]

2. I can just hear him.

"But wait a minute. If I sacrifice Eric or Donnie to it, will that thing make me really, really rich? You know - like my idiots think I am."

"No, sir. That's just in the movies."

"Screw'em, then! What good are they!"

[Laffy Kat]

3. Fair is fair. nt

[sandensea]

4. Hear, hear.

And besides: if it's a question of devilishness...

[flying rabbit]

5. Satan aint got nothing on

this administration.