in the name of the father, the son and the holy copy editor

[txsportsscribe]

newspapers as organized religion?

http://www.slate.com/id/2210912/

 

[clutchcargo]

Well, most of us already qualify in the nonprofit category. Maybe we could double-dip---get declared a religion and get a piece of the next bailout.

You think?

 

[Football_Bat]

Consider United States v. Judith H. Kuch, a federal case from 1968. Facing narcotics charges, Kuch called herself "Primate of the Potomac" of the Neo-American Church, announced that LSD was her sacrament, and advanced a religious-freedom defense. The judge scoured the Neo-American faith—no spur-of-the-moment Kuch concoction, it had been incorporated in California three years earlier and claimed some 20,000 members—for the customary marks of churchdom and concluded that it came up short. There was no evidence of "a religious discipline, a ritual, or tenets to guide one's daily existence." But the judge did find troublesome stigmata of frivolity: The church symbol was a three-eyed toad; its term for clergy was Boo-Hoos; one of its hymns was "Puff, the Magic Dragon"; and—the judge seemed to find this particularly significant—its motto was "Victory Over Horse****."

Sounds like my kinda church.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

I didn't need to see that picture over lunch.

 

[zeke12]

Homer, are you licking toads again?

I'm not not licking toads.