Posted on 06/02/2013 6:13:45 PM PDT by blueyon
Late last week, The Huffington Post reported that the Evangelical Immigration Table, a coalition of evangelicals supporting the Senate immigration bill, had announced a $250,000 ad buy in support of the legislation. It was part of the Table's 92-day Pray for Reform campaign that also included newspaper and radio ads. Curiously, however, the Evangelical Immigration Table doesn't legally exist as an incorporated political entity or non-profit organization.
On Thursday, Breitbart News contacted the Evangelical Immigration Table (EIT), asking about the organization's structure, how it is governed and where it receives funding. The organization responded Friday in an email to Breitbart News:
The Evangelical Immigration Table functions as a coalition of partners and does not exist as its own non-profit.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
This story also ties into it
“National Immigration Forum Funded by Soros and the Left”
The National Immigration Forum (NIF), the force behind the so-called “Evangelical Immigration Table” (EIT), is actually a front group for players on the institutional left including billionaire George Soros and the Ford Foundation, according to reporting by Breitbart News and other outlets.....
I just love it when Marxist atheists start “praying”.
***Most Americans, including Evangelicals, support reforming our nation’s immigration system***
Sure, just like ‘90% of Americans support gun confiscation’. Where do these jokers get their information?
Fact is most Americans support ENFORCING existing law. The current laws are more than sufficient to get the job done.
They’ll soon have another “study” advancing their cause which will be broadcast by their coporate news jackal afils. Soros also fronted the (non)Catholic whatever for Obama...
It sounds like a way to try and convince people that there’s support for illegals by religious groups. I’ll bet the IRS never investigates their ststus....
If they weren’t a 501-C group, and never took in any money....they are completely safe. IRS wouldn’t waste a second on them.
There are groups which function entirely without taking in any cash from anyone. I admit, they are few and far between, but some exist.
Yeah, I was being sarcastic.
Did the $250,000 ad buy they made come from the tooth fairy?
Their may be groups such as you describe, but I'd bet my tooth fairy money (and my remaining teeth) that this ain't one of them.
Heads of the Evangelical Immigration Table
Leith Anderson, President, National Association of Evangelicals
Stephan Bauman, President and CEO, World Relief
David Beckmann, President, Bread for the World
Noel Castellanos, CEO, Christian Community Development Association
Luis Cortés, President, Esperanza
Richard Land, President, Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission
Samuel Rodriguez, President, National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference
Gabriel Salguero, President, National Latino Evangelical Coalition
Mathew Staver, Chairman and Founder, Liberty Counsel
Jim Wallis, President and CEO, Sojourners
http://evangelicalimmigrationtable.com/
Willow Creek Community Church’s Pastor Bill Hybels, also addressed the Immigration Table. He condemned the “never-ending nightmare” for undocumented aliens “of deportation” and “a never-ending limbo” of lacking citizenship. The Rev. Gabriel Salguero, president of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition, informed the large crowd, “The time has come…because nothing changes without brave people demanding it.”
More importantly, where do they get the money for $50k campaigns?
Are they (C)3? C(4)? C(5)?
Have they been hassled by the IRS?
If not, why not?
"Never-ending nightmares" is exactly what illegal alien criminals deserve.
How much additional effort is required to "go legal?"
Specially with such sterling church groups there to sponsor them!
The National Immigration Forum (NIF), the force behind the so-called “Evangelical Immigration Table” (EIT), is actually a front group for players on the institutional left including billionaire George Soros and the Ford Foundation, according to reporting by Breitbart News and other outlets.
According to the Huffington Post, EIT is running a $250,000 advertising campaign in favor of the Senate’s “Gang of Eight” immigration bill. Even so, EIT admitted to Breitbart News it does not legally exist as an incorporated political entity or non-profit organization but said NIF is the group that “facilitates” its activities.
NIF is a power player in immigration politics, and includes among its leadership some of the most powerful Washington figures on the issue.
In 2009, OSI donated $257,152 to NIF aimed at “implementing immigration reform campaign through communications, policy, and field organizing.”
Also in 2009, OSI donated another $1.5 million to “allow” NIF to “manage and lead Four Pillars Campaign for comprehensive immigration reform, and sustain core policy work supporting and leading policy efforts.”
A year later, in 2010, Soros’s OSI gave NIF another $1.5 million over two separate grants both intended for “general operating support.”
NIF has also received $1 million total from the leftist Ford Foundation, spread over two separate half-million-dollar grants in 2009 and 2011. Those grants were both intended for advocacy in favor of comprehensive immigration reform.
Jim Wallis, the president and CEO of Sojourners, a leading force in the Evangelical Immigration Table group, has admitted to accepting funding from Soros as well.
World magazine writer Marvin Olasky laid out in a 2010 article how Wallis and his organization, Sojourners, had received $325,000 from Soros groups over three grants from 2004, 2006 and 2007. According to OSI’s 2007 990 form filed with the IRS, available publicly through the Foundation Center, the 2007 money—a total of $100,000—was for Wallis’s Sojourners “to support the Christians for Comprehensive Immigration Reform Campaign.”
Thanks blueyon.
The IRS needs to investigate the Evangelical Immigration Table and make them pay their fair share plus any fines and penalties for any taxes that they have avoided. Are there any of our Congress critters or their minions reading this thread who can get the IRS to do this?
Hybels has largely avoided association with specific political parties or movements, although in June, 2010 he introduced President Obama’s address on immigration reform, and his wife, Lynne Hybels, blogs for God’s Politics on Sojourners website.
Hybels married his wife Lynne in May 1974, and has two adult children (Shauna and Todd) and two grandchildren. Lynne Hybels has been involved in Willow Creek’s ministry partnerships in Latin America and currently serves as an advocate for those affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa. She is the author of Nice Girls Don’t Change the World.
Their new Fall 2007 Catalog gives a clear picture of where their heart lies, with resources offered by New Age proponent Rob Bell
Willow Creek intends to do about strengthening its focus on “spiritual practices” and “transform[ing] the planet.”
One of the Willowcreek theory papers on small groups in churches suggests that we need to remove “religious words” in our efforts to reach the community.
I would expect nothing less from “Willow Creek” in Barrington Ill...I remember that church when I used to live up there. Needless to say I chose not to go there
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