Posted on 10/26/2001 2:52:28 PM PDT by Notwithstanding
October 25, 2001
IRS ASKED TO REVOKE TAX-EXEMPT STATUS OF SISTERS OF PERPETUAL INDULGENCE
The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights has petitioned the Internal Revenue Service to revoke the tax-exempt status of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. The league’s position is that the Sisters have long been in violation of the law that allows non-profits a tax-exempt status.
Catholic League president William Donohue commented on this development today:
“The Catholic League has legally acquired documents filed by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence with the IRS that nominally commit the Sisters to certain legitimate goals. The problem is not what the group proclaims to be doing—fundraising and education—but what it spends most of its time doing, namely Catholic bashing. It is ludicrous on the face of it for the Sisters to maintain that one of the major issues they address is ‘the role of religion in daily life.’ How? By simulating sodomy while dressed as nuns, using a gas pump as a phallic symbol?
“Suffice it to say that we have compiled evidence of the group’s flagrantly anti-Catholic and patently indecent activities. Hence our decision to appeal to the IRS to strip the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence of its tax-exempt status.
“If a group of white anti-black bigots dressed up as Al Jolson and mocked African Americans, no one would excuse them because a small part of what they do is to contribute a pittance to selective charities. If a group of anti-Semites were to dress as Shylock and mock Jews, no one would excuse them because a small part of what they do is to contribute a pittance to selective charities. Similarly, we do not expect anyone—including the IRS—to excuse the Catholic-bashing the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence engage in because a small part of what they do is to contribute a pittance to AIDS-related charities.
“The evidence we have amassed is thorough and persuasive. The time has come for the government to stop the public funding of bigotry under the guise of charitable giving.”
So they must be a non-profit. ¿Right?
Offensive, but legal. I don't want the government deciding which group's ideas are acceptable, and which are not.
I support firearms education charity, which has a tax deductible status. I would like to keep it that way (until the income tax is repealed.)
When I read something like this, I want to hurl something!
patent
Falwell was right and the Bible is not some old dusty outdated book that needs to be thrown out because we don't all like what it says.
As for these fruits dressed up as nuns, they should not only have their status revoked they should have to pay back every red cent they gained from being exempt
BS. This is a social club, whose hobby is acting out their self-validation. Their impudent expectation is that we'd like to subsidise this willful suppression of residual guilt through non-therapeutic recreation. Pass.
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Welcome to Free Republic. I have this uncanny ability to spot left-wing newcomers, Drunk. Next, I'll be running a search on all of your posts, to see what not-so-subtle ridicule for conservative common sense you've posted on our other threads.
Hahahaha! TV as babysitter! Whatever happened to parents' taking responsibility for the influences on their children? Let's blame Ellen for the fact that we're too lazy to pay attention to information sources which mold our children's minds from early youth! It's all big, bad, lesbian Ellen's fault! -- DrunkenDotter
The preceding was posted in response to the fact that the Human Rights Campaign, one of the organizations that are shoving the homosexual agenda down the throats of our children, has bought advertising time during the Saturday morning cartoons. Apparently brainwashing our kids while they're in public school isn't good enough.
Now then, regarding the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. There is a certain white supremacist named Matt Hale, who has been trying to provide legitimacy to his racial hate speech for years by claiming tax-exempt status as the World Church of the Creator. Make no mistake about it, this is the Klan. The Illinois Attorney General's Office is on him like white on rice about the tax-exempt status and I could not be happier about it.
The test appears to be whether the primary purpose of the alleged non-profit is to promote a religious or philanthropic agenda, or to promote some other kind of agenda. Obviously, both the World Church of the Creator and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence fall into the latter category. Freedom of speech and all that, but I don't have to subsidize it by paying their share of the tax burden.
You did realize that I was joking, didn't you? I didn't seriously mean to defend the "nuns'" organization as a "church" or other tax-exempt non-profit organization.
(By the standard I was describing, maybe Amazon.com should be tax-exempt, because it doesn't turn a profit, either!)
Okay, maybe the "joke" wasn't terribly funny. Butt it was meant as a joke.
7 posted on 10/26/01 3:06 PM Pacific by Grampa Dave:
"When I read something like this, I want to hurl something!
This will make you hurl -- get your puke bucket and Meet the "Sisters"
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