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Article: Clinton Stops Justice Department From Seeking Forfeiture of Tithes; Church Contributions Protected Against Creditors, President Says
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- The Washington Post
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- September 16, 1994
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President Clinton has ordered the Justice Department to abandon
efforts to force a Minnesota church to turn over to creditors the
weekly tithes of a couple who had gone into bankruptcy.
Partly in response to criticism by religious leaders, Clinton,
in a rare intervention, on Wednesday overruled the Justice
Department. He told Attorney General Janet Reno that Justice had
adopted too "narrow" a view of the Religious Freedom Restoration
Act, which he had signed just last year with much fanfare.
The case involves Bruce and Nancy Young, Minnesota parishioners
who donated 10 percent of their gross income to their church each
week in a year when their electrical contracting business was
heading ...