Is your church a 501-C

There are so many things wrong with that I dont know where to start. Ill deal with it later. Disappointed in ole chuck.

 

No. We have never been, and never have seen any need to be. At the same time, we are not overly worried about what others decide to do about this. I have not read yet what Chuck Baldwin says about it.

Is Liberty Fellowship an organization (like an association or convention) which other churches can join, or just the name of Baldwin's congregation in Kalispell?

 

Churches are automatically tax exempt in the United States regardless if they have sought formal recognition from the IRS.

 

Again, a church is not required uner IRS regulations to apply for 501c3 status. They are automatically recognized as tax exempt.

 

They are but 501c3 gives the church members corporate legal protections. Individual church members cant be sued for liability issues unless there is individual misconduct.

 

That is for incorporating which is not the same as 501c3.

 

No. We are one of God's outposts for the fellowship and service for the Kingdom of God.

We have 501c3 status, as a non-profit religious group (specifically, a church), but that does not define us in anyone's eyes except for the IRS.

 

Nope the 501c3 is incorporating. And it does offer those protections.

 

As Revmitchell wrote:

He's right. It is massively flawed. In fact, we are all made less informed by reading it.

The legal analysis here is laughable to anyone who knows anything about Constitutional law.

I was baffled how an attorney of any level of competence would present information like the article, "The 501(c)(3) Incorporated Church 'Down and Dirty.'" I looked at the "Broef Biography of Barbara Ketay at the bottom of the page and was surprised to see that she "attended Chase Law School" in Cincinnati and "Blackstone School of Law" in Chicago. There's nothing said about her completing any study program or whether or not she passed the state bar. So I did a little checking...

The "Chase Law School" she "attended" (I wonder if that was auditing or just hanging around the campus), is a legitimate and reputable school -- The Salmon P. Chase College of Law. The second institution, and it's carefully worded to not place the word "attended" next to "Blackstone School of Law," is now known as the 'Blackstone Career Institute,' and now offers distance education/home study instruction. But prior to that (before 1948), it was essentially a diploma mill:

The Institute was preceded by the Blackstone College of Law (or Blackstone School of Law), an unaccredited correspondence law school in operation until the 1970s. In 1948, the Federal Trade Commission ordered Blackstone to cease misrepresenting its qualifications as a law school, and characterized the institution as a "diploma mill."​

Barbara Ketay (deceased since 2016) graduated the University of Cincinnati in 1979, and it would seem she made contact with the "Blackstone School of Law(sic)" after that time. Since the FTC made that institution change its name in 1948, it appears that Ms. Ketay was being less than forthright about her legal credentials. And since her legal analysis is a disaster, I think it is safe to say that any viewpoint built on this nonsense argument is completely invalid.