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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 09:18 AM
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Lawsuit challenges Georgia's sales tax exception for Bibles
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-aclu16.html



<snip>''If they're not taxing someone's holy scriptures, they shouldn't be taxing anyone's,'' said Candace Apple, who owns the Phoenix and Dragon Bookstore in the Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs.

The law, from the 1950s, exempts from taxes the Bible as well as ''similar books commonly recognized as being Holy Scripture.''

''What about A Witches' Bible?'' Apple asked.
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Coastie for Truth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-05 09:21 AM
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1. Also Pennsylvania
based on a Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision that a sales tax on Bibles, Korans, Gubendu Guru's, (Wiccan Bibles, etc.) etc., is a form of prohibition on free exercise of religion.
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