Thanks to your support and sharing the petition has crossed 15,000 signatures and is consistently moving towards its next milestone of 20,000 signatures. Forbes magazine mentioned the petition this week in an article by Peter J Reilly. I have a different focus in my approach towards Scientology than does Reilly. Essentially, I call for a revocation of Scientology's tax exemption for a number of reasons. One of the main reasons is Scientology's violations of public policy, i.e. Scientology breaks the law by its conduct of lies, fraud, and the craven exploitation of its members in all possible ways including child labor. Since gaining tax exemption in 1993 Scientology has continued to engage in violations of public policy, bad faith, lies, and psycho-terrorism all funded by tax exempt dollars. This is an outrage. The illegality doctrine clearly applies in the case of the Church of Scientology. What is the illegality doctrine? It was quoted by the court in the landmark case Bob Jones University v. United States: Bob Jones University v. United States, 461 U.S. 574 (1983) at 598. The illegality doctrine acts as a check to assure that the federal government does not support through tax exemption an organization engaged in behavior the government is charged with preventing. As a district court noted in an oft-quoted passage, if it were not for the limits of the illegality doctrine, "...Fagan's school for pickpockets would qualify for a charitable trust." Green v. Connally, 330 F. Supp. 1150 (D.C.D.C. 1971) (three judge panel), aff'd per curiam sub nom., Coit v. Green, 404 U.S. 997 (1971). The government has an interest in not subsidizing criminal activity. The Tax Court noted in Church of Scientology of California v. Commissioner, 83 T.C. 382, 506 (1984) that, "Were we to sustain petitioner's exemption, we would in effect be sanctioning petitioner's right to conspire to thwart the IRS at taxpayer's expense. We think such paradoxes are best left to Gilbert and Sullivan. I quoted this court decision in my new essay on Scientology and Criminality: https://scientologymoneyproject.com/2017/11/19/criminality-and-the-church-of-scientology/ The Forbes Magazine article: