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Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/May 3, 2024  by Gog the Mild (talk) 21:12, 20 March 2024 (UTC)



Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption was a legally recognized church in the United States established by the comedian and satirist John Oliver. Announced on August 16, 2015, in an episode of the television program Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, the church's purpose was to highlight and criticize televangelists, such as Kenneth Copeland and Robert Tilton, whom Oliver argued used television broadcasts of Christian church services for private gain. Oliver also established Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption to draw attention to the tax-exempt status given to churches and charities. During his show on September 13, 2015, Oliver announced that the church had received over $70,000 and a variety of other items from viewers, and stated that the Church would be shutting down. All donations were given to Doctors Without Borders. Oliver set up spinoffs of the Church in 2018 and 2021. The segments and future spinoff segments featured the comedian Rachel Dratch as Oliver's fictional wife, Wanda Jo.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Most recent entertainment-related article was Angel Aquino on Feb 7, but there's not many articles like this
 * Main editors: MyCatIsAChonk
 * Promoted: September 18, 2023
 * Reasons for nomination: Not particular reason other than for the sake of appearing on the main page
 * Support as nominator. MyCatIsAChonk (talk) (not me) (also not me) (still no) 15:47, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Support. Pseud 14 (talk) 17:26, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Support because I, too, want to see Oliver on the main page. – Epicgenius (talk) 16:18, 14 March 2024 (UTC)