Golden Writ of God v. Department of Revenue

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• holding 230-acre homesite with barn and corral not reasonably ORDER ON PARTIES’ CROSS-MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT TC-MD 200145G 4 of 7 necessary for organization’s religious use
• declining to “step into the controversial thicket” of examining whether the legislature meant to exempt unconventional religious groups
• holding one parcel exempt and others taxable
• denying an exemption of a farmhouse occupied by adherents and stating that the residence was like any other, “no different from the farms and homes in which millions of Oregonians have meditated and prayed since this state was founded in 1859”
• adherents of religion not required to live in residence or on farm
• describing rule and holding one parcel exempt and others taxable

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