{"id":7057,"date":"2010-09-03T00:25:40","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T06:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=7057"},"modified":"2010-09-02T23:06:45","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T05:06:45","slug":"quaker-loses-challenge-to-tax-support-for-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/03\/quaker-loses-challenge-to-tax-support-for-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Quaker Loses Challenge to Tax Support for Military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government&#8217;s use of tax monies from its citizens is frequently an issue for debate, even on non-religious topics.\u00a0 The discussion can become more significant when people question whether the government&#8217;s use of their money is &#8220;moral,&#8221; and if they should therefore not pay taxes.<\/p>\n<p>In an interesting federal district court case, <em>Moore-Backman v. United States<\/em>, the complaint of Quaker Christopher Moore-Backman that his tax support of the military &#8220;burdens his religious exercise in violation of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act&#8221; was dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/court-rejects-quakers-challenge-to-use.html\">noted by Howard Friedman<\/a>, the court&#8217;s conclusion was somewhat broadly stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The court concluded that there was no free exercise or RFRA violation because under relevant case law the Government is not required to conduct its own internal affairs in a way that comports with an individual&#8217;s religious beliefs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government&#8217;s use of tax monies from its citizens is frequently an issue for debate, even on non-religious topics.\u00a0 The discussion can become more significant when people question whether the government&#8217;s use of their money is &#8220;moral,&#8221; and if they should therefore not pay taxes. In an interesting federal district court case, Moore-Backman v. United States, the complaint of Quaker [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[952,4,951,19,953,45,950,10,171,949],"class_list":["post-7057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-christopher-moore-backman","tag-churchandstate","tag-friend","tag-government","tag-irs","tag-politics","tag-quaker","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}