Hi Wifi Bandit.
Are there copies of this letters in Spanish? Their equivalents from the Spanish branch would be fantastic if available.
Also if you have the UK versions, I'd be very grateful.
Jehovah's Witnesses and Jimmy Swaggart
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AverageJoe1
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Earnest
Here is the case, Swaggart Ministries v. California Board of Equalization, (1990).
I should note that the argument by Swaggart Ministries relies almost exclusively on the decisions in Murdock v. Pennsylvania, 319 U.S. 105 (1943), and Follett v. McCormick, 321 U.S. 573, 576 (1944), that a State may not impose a tax on the evangelical distribution of religious material by a religious organization.
The fact that these decisions reversed the convictions of Jehovah's Witnesses for soliciting and distributing religious literature in 1943/44, does give the Watchtower good cause to file a brief as "friend of the court". They were not urging "reversal" along with Swaggart Ministries et al but simply wanted to have a say in court.
Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the Association for Public Justice by Bradley P. Jacob; for the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability et al. by Samuel E. Ericsson, Michael J. Woodruff, and Forest D. Montgomery; for the International Society for Krishna Consciousness of California, Inc., by David M. Liberman, Robert C. Moest, and Barry A. Fisher; for the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S. A. by Douglas Laycock; and for the National Taxpayers Union by Gale A. Norton.
Steven R. Shapiro filed a brief for the American Civil Liberties Union as amicus curiae urging affirmance.
Briefs of amici curiae were filed for the National Conference of State Legislatures et al. by Benna Ruth Solomon and Charles Rothfeld; and for the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc., by James M. McCabe and Donald T. Ridley.
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smiddy3
However by definition "Friend Of The Court" puts Jehovah`s Witnesses and Jimmy Swaggart Ministries in bed with each other
The so called "true Religion" (JW`s) with an Apostate False Religion {Jimmy Swaggart Ministries } a part of Babylon The Great .
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Earnest
smiddy3 : by definition "Friend Of The Court" puts Jehovah`s Witnesses and Jimmy Swaggart Ministries in bed with each other
Really? In their brief of amicus curiae the Watchtower Society give their reasons for applying to be "friend of the court" :
The court below and this Court in its recent decision in Texas Monthly, Inc. v. Bullock, 103 S. Ct. 890 (1989), have discussed this Court's prior decisions relating to the preaching activities of Jehovah's Witnesses. Watchtower, as the parent organization of Jehovah's Witnesses, is uniquely familiar with these activities. And although Watchtower supports neither party in this case, Watchtower believes this Court should be informed of the Witnesses' door-to-door preaching work and how a tax on either the distribution or receipt of a printed religious message would bear on this work. For these reasons, Watchtower has filed this brief amicus curiae.