Posted on 09/25/2024 12:59:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A prominent secular legal organization has asked the Internal Revenue Service to revoke the tax-exempt status of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association over alleged violation of election law.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation, which advocates for a strict separation of church and state, sent a request to the IRS last week regarding a special edition of the BGEA's Decision magazine that compares the two major party presidential candidates.
According to FFRF, the magazine labels Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris an advocate of "socialism" while Republican former President Donald Trump is labeled a supporter of "freedom."
The group alleges that the BGEA magazine has "a cherry-picked comparison between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump intended to encourage readers to vote for Donald Trump over Kamala Harris."
"It evidences a clear bias and preference for Donald Trump and Republicans in the upcoming elections and is distributed for the purpose of intervening in these elections," stated the FFRF.
The FFRF accuses the BGEA of violating the Internal Revenue Code's prohibition on nonprofit groups taking part "in (including the publishing or distributing of statements), any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office."
(Excerpt) Read more at christianpost.com ...
I wonder if they’ll say the same about this church and this judge?
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For their part, the BGEA provided Christian Post with an official statement at the time in which they defended the “vote biblical values” ads as being in step with federal law on electioneering.
“The ads intentionally do not mention any candidate, political party, or contest, urging instead for readers to cast votes for candidates-at all levels-based on their support for biblical values,” read the 2012 statement.
The FFRF’s latest complaint against the BGEA comes as Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance and his wife Usha visited the graves of Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth, at the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, North Carolina, Monday.
Where again, is that in the Constitution?
An assault on freedom of speech.
Don’t Biden, Harris, Pelosi, Clintons, etc go into churches to “get out the vote”?
I really don’t think the government wants to open that Pandora’s box. I triple dog dare them to do it.
I am 84.
I have very clear memories of JESSE JACKSON politicking in many ‘churches’.
Agreed. For starters, there are many, many left leaning non-profits that are tax exempt and do a lot of advocacy for the Dims. If they start clamping down on the very few church organizations that advocate for Republicans, they risk the same happening to a much larger army of Dim supporting groups.
Black people and churches are exempt. The blacks and apologists wish to put whites in concentration camps and confiscate their wealth as did the Rhodesians and South Africans that took over. Pay attention..it is slowly happening and yet many are just not paying attention and call this observation “racist”.
By the way, NO WHERE in the founding documents, or any other document, is there mention of "Separation of Church and State". There is plenty in the founder's documents about freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
Billy Graham did more to help people of all races than 50 years of the "Black Caucus".
"The Black Caucus" sounds like a Sherlock Holmes mystery where he fights an evil nemesis.
The DNC is filled to the brim with “non-profits” who’s only tasks are attacking the GOP and “get out the vote”
The IRS doesn’t have a problem with them.
Actually they can speak all they want. Just don’t accept the welfare from the government. Yes getting money through tax savings is definitely welfare.
Ok - now revoke the nonprofit status of all the black churches and Muslim mosques…
Churches across the Nation should be dropping their 501c3 status based simply on what it means to churches, but they won’t do that. Tithers should be prepared to give without a deduction. This is the way the US has bypassed the BoR on this.
When the membership dies and is burning in the Lake of Fire for eternity they will have second-thoughts about ‘freedom from religion.’
“vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance and his wife Usha visited the graves of Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth, at the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, North Carolina, Monday.“
Would heartily recommend that anyone visit the Billy Graham library in Charlotte, NC, no matter your religion. It is very well done.
They haven’t been enforcing the Johnson act. Why would they start now?
What about the 2020 GA non-profits that sent couriers to remote drop boxes in the middle of the night with bags of ballots.
Nowhere. What the first amendment says is that we cannot have an official state religion, state denomination or state church but we cannot outlaw any religion or the free practice of thereof either.
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