[Vision2020] A Failure to Communicate

[Captain Kirker]

Visionheads:

Does this mean that the BOE can arrest Douglas Wilson, sentence him to a 
chain gang, let George Kennedy kick his ass, and force-feed him 50 
hard-boiled eggs?

I am, and shall remain, the Captain at your service.



>From: DonaldH675 at aol.com
>To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: [Vision2020] A Failure to Communicate
>Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 15:58:29 EDT
>
>Visionaries:
>One of my favorite movies is Cool Hand Luke.  In particular, the lines 
>"What
>we have here is a failure to communicate" resonates strongly with me.  And, 
>I
>believe, I may have to plead guilty to that charge myself.  Saundra Lund 
>and
>are not challenging the tax exempt status of Christ Church.  That is an 
>issue
>for the IRS to evaluate, not the Latah County Board of Equalization.
>We are challenging the property tax exemption given to an office building,
>Anselm House, which is property owned by Christ Church.  Anselm House is 
>not
>used for public worship. According to Christ Church pastor, Doug Wilson, 
>the
>congregation meets at the Logos School Field House on Sundays, and at the 
>Nuart
>Theater for those purposes.  Anselm House is not a parsonage, and it is not 
>a
>recreation hall.  Those are the purposes described in the Idaho Statue 
>63-602B
>under which Anselm House was granted the property tax exemption.
>http://www3.state.id.us/cgi-bin/newidst?sctid=630060002B.K Hence, the 
>reason that our
>attorney argued the case based on the word exclusivity.  This appeal and 
>its legal
>merit has absolutely nothing to do with doctrinal positions, personalities,
>religious organizations etc. etc. etc.
>Our appeal asks the BOE to observe the rule of the law and revoke a 
>property
>tax exemption inappropriately granted to an exempt organization.  Again, 
>the
>exempt status of the organization is not the issue, the use of property 
>owned
>by the exemption organization is the issue.  We argue that it fails to meet 
>the
>statutory standards. Please note that 63-602B was the statute under which
>Christ Church, as owner of the office building, Anselm House, filed for the
>exemption.  They chose to use that statute, we chose to challenge them on 
>it.
>If Pope Joan moved her church headquarters from the office space in our
>jointly shared library into our little red shop building, (which is a 
>multi-purpose
>space), and then had the nerve to try to claim a property tax exemption on
>the shop because she wrote books, articles, and edited the Auntie 
>Establishment
>website in the shop, Saundra and I would bring the same issues forward.  
>Oops,
>maybe not, Saundra is the Bishop of Moscow, according to Pope Joan.
>Rose Huskey
>PS  Pope Joan is not contemplating either moving to the shop or picking the
>pockets of Latah County tax payers by claiming a property tax exemption.
>
>
>
>"One cannot level one's moral lance at every evil in the universe. There 
>are
>just too many of them. But you can do something, and the difference between
>doing something and doing nothing is everything." Daniel Berrigan
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