Hate Churches and Hate Groups
The Reverend Hardy Carroll Lloyd, Church of the Creator, aka, the Church of Ben Klassen
I have developed a sort of morbid . . . “curiosity” is too weak and “fascination” is too strong . . . interest in mass killings. They are getting hard to keep up with by their hashtags, too. In Pittsburgh earlier this month, the racist mass murderer Robert Bowers received the death penalty for storming a Squirrel Hill Synagogue and killing 11 people. These narcissistic murderers love to publish “manifestos” and invariably they quote or are quoted by some group claiming tax exemption, usually as an educational organization. There are about 90 such exempt groups according to various estimates. Last week, DOJ filed charges against “Reverend” Hardy Carroll Lloyd for his acts in connection with the Bowers trial:
Hardy Carroll Lloyd, age 45, was taken into custody early this morning without incident. According to the criminal complaint, Lloyd began commenting online about the federal hate crimes trial in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, of Robert Bowers, the Tree of Life Synagogue mass shooter. Lloyd, a self-proclaimed “reverend” of a white supremacy movement, made threatening social media posts, website comments, and emails towards the jury and witnesses during the trial. Lloyd also placed or had others place stickers in predominantly Jewish areas of Pittsburgh, directing people to the website containing his threats and antisemitic messages.
When I saw DOJ refer to Lloyd as “reverend,” well that made me curious. And I eventually found his “church” website. I’ll not post some of the “protected” speech here, but if you want a taste and don’t mind seeing the “n” word spelled out, or Jewish people declared mortal enemies who must be killed, check out the excerpts below the fold. By the way, I scuttled an interview once when I suggested that I might let people say what they want to say — n word and all — so long as we all have the same size microphone and can respond with our own words just as loudly or persistently. I just don’t want to pay for it by giving hate speakers tax exemption.
You might also know that I have written and been a demagogue regarding my belief that the First Amendment does not mean that hate groups can’t be denied tax exemption. Their purpose, lets not be sophistic, is to kill me and mine and many of you and yours. How can that purpose ever be charitable? And its the purpose that counts, not the words used to achieve the purpose. A purpose that doesn’t become entitled to tax exemption just because its facilitated by speech. Government doesn’t have to subsidize that [noncharitable] purpose just because it subsidizes other [charitable] purposes.
I have argued exactly the opposite; the government must deny tax exemption for hate groups, stochastic terrorists people call them. I steer clear of religion in that paper. I stick to hate groups posing as educators and dismantle any conceivable argument for tax exemption on that basis. But I have also conceded that churches can do whatever they want with their tax exemption. You can worship Satan or any other author of hate manifested in different forms amongst our religions, and be a tax exempt church. We cannot deny tax exemption to the Church of Ben Klassen if it is a church. But it has to be a church first:
To determine whether a religious organization may properly be characterized as a church, the Service considers whether the organization has the following characteristics: (a) a distinct legal existence, (b) a recognized creed and form of worship, (c) a definite and distinct ecclesiastical government, (d) a formal code of doctrine and discipline, (e) a distinct religious history, (f) a membership not associated with any other church or denomination, (g) an organization of ordained ministers, (h) ordained ministers selected after completing prescribed studies, (i) a literature of its own, (j) established places of worship, (k) regular congregations, (l) regular religious services, (m) Sunday schools for religious instruction of the young, (n) schools for the preparation of its ministers, and (o) any other facts and circumstances that may bear upon the organization’s claim for church status. See IRM 7(10)69, Exempt Organizations Examination Guidelines Handbook, text 321.3(3).
By the way is it just me or does the 15 factor test sound remarkably like the Christian version of church? I’m just asking. But for the Constitution’s sake, I am perfectly willing that a church of hate retain tax exemption. I think. I am not sure yet, but that’s my tentative line in the sand. But the group had better be a church, in which case their beliefs and their donations are between them and their god.
But if it ain’t a church, it cannot be exempt as an educational organization. It doesn’t have to be charitable to be a church, but it has to be charitable to be an educational organization. Trust me. And its not charitable because hate is against public policy and the commonly understood meaning of charity — which meaning Bob Jones makes entirely relevant if the meaning is held by a super duper majority (a rule with its own troubles, I admit). And it is not educational according to an epistemological definition. Its indoctrination and that is different from education even if educators necessarily indoctrinate. Education teaches how to think, indoctrination teaches what to think.
darryll k. jones
From the Church of Ben Klassen
WE BELIEVE that the White Race, its Biological and Cultural Heritage, is now under attack by our mortal racial enemies: Jews, niggers and the mud races.
WE BELIEVE that, due to the Jew-instigated demographic explosion of the mud races, we must (as a matter of life or death!) not only start, but also win the worldwide White Racial Holy War within this generation.
WE BELIEVE that RAHOWA (RAcial HOly WAr), under the victorious flag of the one and only, true and revolutionary White Racial Religion – CREATIVITY – is the only road to the resurrection and redemption of the White Race.