Lawyers for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints argue in the James Huntsman legal appeal that faiths need not disclose their finances for 'religious' as well as constitutional reasons.
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The church’s redactions, they added, appear to be primarily aimed at “concealing the amount of money it has. Of course, the amount of one’s wealth is not a propriety fact, in and of itself.”Church attorneys push back adamantly, maintaining Huntsman has reneged on his prior consent to keep the financial information away from public eyes and for the judge’s review only. Their court motions invoke passages from the Bible as well as the U.S.
Huntsman’s lawyers, led by Los Angeles-based David Jonelis, counter that it is “patently unfair for the church, on the one hand, to publicly accuse Mr. Huntsman of making ‘unfounded’ allegations, while, on the other hand, refusing to disclose the very documents that purport to refute Mr. Huntsman’s allegations.”
“Con men who cloak themselves in religion are not beyond the reach of the law,” the group’s attorneys wrote in their request to join the case. “But the First Amendment’s religion clauses bar courts from second-guessing how churches spend their money just because some tithe payers disagree.
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