Guests: Ruth Hurmence Green, Born Again Skeptic Michael Gordon, IRS Tax Attorney on Unfair Parish Exemption

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🗓️ 2 January 2010

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Tune in for a special broadcast of the pith and wisdom of Ruth Hurmence Green (born in January), author of The Born Again Skeptic's Guide to the Bible—an interview taken 30 years ago about what's wrong with the bible, and an interview of Michael Gordon, a retired IRS attorney, who will tell us how the parish exemption works, and how the IRS law preferentially permits "ministers of the gospel" to exclude housing costs from taxable income.

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0:00.0	This is free thought radio on Air America with your hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor.
0:19.8	Imagine there's no heaven
0:22.3	It's easy if you try
0:41.3	No hell below us above us above us only sky imagine all the people
0:48.3	living for today Happy news Happy New Year to all you, I'm
0:59.5	welcome to everyone listening to our weekly program.
1:03.1	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and this is Free Thought Radio.
1:05.7	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood, atheist of the airwaves.
1:10.1	Free Thought Radio broadcasts over many Air America stations and is streaming from airamerica.com.
1:15.8	And this show, Free Thought Radio, is the production of the National Freedom from Religion Foundation,
1:21.7	the country's largest organization of Freethinkers, atheists, agnostic, skeptics, none of the above, who work to keep state and church
1:30.3	separate and to tell the public about the views of nonbelievers.
1:36.2	On the second half of Free Thought Radio, we'll talk with Michael Gordon, who's a retired IRS attorney,
1:42.5	about the Freedom from Religion Foundation's newest federal lawsuit
1:45.7	challenging the so-called parish exemption, whereby ministers of the gospel as a class are
1:51.9	afforded unprecedented benefits by the IRS to deduct their housing allowances, mortgages,
1:57.9	and so on from their taxable income.
2:00.0	And after a little news update, we're pleased that Free Thought Radio can resurrect,
2:04.1	if we can borrow a word, resurrect the wisdom of Ruth Hermant's Green,
2:09.7	the author of the Born Again Skeptics Guide to the Bible.
2:12.8	And that was the first book published by the Freedom from Religion Foundation,
2:16.1	and Ruth was a very dear friend who died in 1981.
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