IRS Gave Tax-Exempt Status to Soros-Backed Group Accused of Targeting ‘Trump Republicans’
The IRS granted tax-exempt status to an organization now accused of allegedly trying to pay an attorney to spread “fake news” about “Trump Republicans.”
The IRS granted tax-exempt status to an organization now accused of allegedly trying to pay an attorney to spread “fake news” about “Trump Republicans.”
The IRS denied the group tax-exempt status, saying, “The Bible’s teachings are typically affiliated with the Republican Party and candidates.”
The Satanic Temple (TST) announced Friday that the IRS has recognized it as a “church” with tax-exempt status.
Documents obtained by Judicial Watch show the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) fast-tracked tax-exempt status for an “After School Satan Club” in Tacoma, Washington, while the federal agency was discovered to be either denying conservative and Christian groups the same status
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday that Lois Lerner, and other IRS officials involved in targeting conservative groups’ tax exempt applications, will not have criminal charges filed against them.
Officials are responding to the Supreme Court ruling in June that required every state to recognize same-sex marriages.
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision mandating that states reward same-sex marriages throughout the nation, churches across the country prepare for the inevitable assault on their tax-exempt statuses.
In a provocative piece in Time magazine, columnist Mark Oppenheimer has proposed following up Friday’s landmark Supreme Court decision imposing same-sex marriage on the nation with the abolition of tax exempt status for religious institutions.
Rather than try to rescue tax-exempt status for organizations that dissent from settled public policy on matters of race or sexuality, we need to take a more radical step. It’s time to abolish, or greatly diminish, their tax-exempt statuses.
The Washington Post observes that because “real money” is involved in legal marriage, the ruling could cause religious schools that ban homosexual relationships and cohabitation to suffer “in a big way” with the loss of tax-exempt status and accreditation.