Many people wearing tie-dye shirts or pictures of marijuana leaves has come together at a cannabis smoking Indianapolis church that was created as a test of Indiana’s new religious objection laws.
However individuals who participated in Wednesday’s inaugural service at the First Church of Cannabis were preparing to celebrate the gathering without their illegal sacrament, some time after law officials threatened arrests if the church fired up during the rites.
Neighbors who are opposed to the church isn’t a good fit for the neighborhood.
Founder of the Bill Levin stated he chose to keep cannabis out of Wednesday’s service to promote the fact that he can test the religious objection laws in civil court rather than on criminal grounds.
The Internal Revenue Service recently notified the Indianapolis- based church that it had been permitted a tax-exempt status under section 501©(3) of the tax code, which covers nonprofit organizations. The designation means the First Church of Cannabis will get the advantages of being considered a public charity, for example, exemption from federal income tax and permitting donors to deduct their financial contributions. The church typically keeps an upbeat position about everything. Its tenets consist of feel-good instructions such as “Spend at least 10 mins a day just contemplating life in a quiet space,” and “Laugh often, share humor. Have fun in life, be positive.” Some of the tenets apply to modern problems as well, for example, “Do not be a ‘troll’ on the Internet, respect others without name calling and being vulgarly aggressive.” Levin stated “These are things that weren’t thought about when they wrote the old books. We have a modern religion for modern times.”
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