This clown sounds like the guys who blame their wives and girlfriends for “making” them beat them.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Barry W. Lynn, Esq. (born 1948) has been the Executive Director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State since 1992.
He is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, and a prominent leader of the American religious left. He is known to be a strong advocate of separation of church and state.
Lynn has appeared frequently on radio broadcasts and television to debate and discuss First Amendment issues, including MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour, NBC’s Today Show, Nightline, Fox Morning News (Washington, D.C.), CNN’s Crossfire, Lou Dobbs Tonight, and Anderson Cooper 360°, The Phil Donahue Show, Meet the Press, CBS Morning News, ABC’s Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, and Larry King Live.
He was formerly a weekly commentator on church-state issues for UPI Radio, and served for two years as regular co-host of Buchanan and Company on the Mutual Broadcasting System.
Lynn currently hosts the radio program Culture Shocks, which can be heard on 1160 am in Washington D.C. and on several stations nationally including the syndicated Genesis Communications Network
Go do some research on the twenty-nine exemptions to 501C. This is a mess. Congress and the Senate basically wrote a bunch of groups into this....then said that IRS would write some questions to determine if they fit, and only then would permission be given to fall into 501C.
Even Obama Care wrote itself a category into the twenty-nine exemptions.
We invited this mess into our house, and unless we stand up and admit the tax code is screwed-up....it’s just going to continue. I think we will have to make the entire 2014 election about tax reform, and just settle on one key repair....flat tax for everyone, and tossing out seventy thousand pages of code.
Barry Lynn is a hugh d*ck from way back.
The restrictions on political campaigning that had formerly applied only to secular bodies were then made applicable to religious groups.
For the most part IRS hasn't 'gone after' folks on that score for the simple reason so many of the Commissioners and Deputy Commissioners were actually active members of non-Christian religious groups and could fairly be accused of unlawful bias.
The fellow who for many years had picked out this, that or the other church for targeting left the agency within the last couple of years.
He got away with it by not going after entire groups or LARGE ENTITIES like the Graham operation.
The current deputy commissioner overriding that sort of thing appears to be less than smart.
Keep Franklin Graham in mind as IRS gets pressured to undo the LBJ modifications.
BTW, best way to pressure the regime here is to have the House pass a supplemental appropriation bill that eliminates promotions in grade, or time in grade raises, or bonuses in the entire agency until they can prove to the House and the Senate that they no longer engage in the offending practices.