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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I was a Unitarian I was asked to contribute 1% of my income.  They even sent the Membership committee to my little basement studio apartment to have the discussion.  I had been giving a nice amount each week at the service and thought that was enough. (I was just a couple of years out of college and working 2 jobs). I moved to another state and started attending another Unitarian church, but did not like it as much as the first one so I just left. [/quote]

Being asked is different from being required.  And it's perfectly ordinary for churches to have pledging committees that make personal visits.  It's not just to get $$, it's to get to know each other..[/quote]

Hahahahaha [/quote]

Yes, the PTL Pass-The-Loot committee.   Jim Bakker would be proud. [/quote]

Op won’t provide the name of the church, so likely it’s just a made up thread.

After a sixteen-month federal grand jury probe, Bakker was indicted in 1988 on eight counts of mail fraud, 15 counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy.[24] In 1989, after a five-week trial which began on August 28 in Charlotte, North Carolina, a jury found him guilty on all 24 counts. Judge Robert Daniel Potter sentenced Bakker to 45 years in federal prison and imposed a $500,000 fine.[46][47][48] At the Federal Medical Center, Rochester in Rochester, Minnesota, he shared a cell with activist Lyndon LaRouche and skydiver Roger Nelson.[49]

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld Bakker's conviction on the fraud and conspiracy charges, voided Bakker's 45-year sentence and $500,000 fine, and ordered a new sentencing hearing in February 1991.[50] The court ruled that Potter's sentencing statement about Bakker, that "those of us who do have a religion are sick of being saps for money-grubbing preachers and priests",[51] was evidence that the judge had injected his religious beliefs into Bakker's sentence.[50]

A sentence-reduction hearing was held on November 16, 1992, and Bakker's sentence was reduced to eight years. In August 1993, he was transferred to a minimum-security federal prison in Jesup, Georgia. Bakker was paroled in July 1994, after serving almost five years of his sentence.[52] His son, Jay, spearheaded a letter-writing campaign to the parole board advocating leniency.[53] Celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz acted as Bakker's parole attorney, having said that he "would guarantee that Mr. Bakker would never again engage in the blend of religion and commerce that led to his conviction."[54] Bakker was released from Federal Bureau of Prisons custody on December 1, 1994,[55] owing $6 million to the IRS.[56]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bakker

Jim Bakker went to prison for his criminal deeds, as he should have. [/quote]

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