Now only if the US's IRS would show some guts and do the same to the
"Jesus is republican" churches.

Canadian IRS Strips Church of Charitable Status Because of Political
Advocacy Activites

Sunday, January 24, 2010

The Kings Glory Fellowship Association, a non-denominational Protestant
group in Calgary was told by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) that based
on spending too much of its time advocating on social issues like
abortion and marriage, they could no longer issue charitable receipts.

Could this be how the IRS responds to the more than 70,000 written
complaints against the Mormon Church over its political activities on
such issues as Proposition 8, the antigay marriage ballot measure that
successfully repealed marriage equality in California?

The Calgary church lost its charitable status in part because it spent
more than 10% of its time on "non-partisan political activities and
therefore strayed into activities "outside its stated purpose."

"We note the members of the Board of Directors espouse strong negative
views about sensitive and controversial issues, which may also be viewed
as political, such as abortion, homosexuality, divorce, etc."

In the United States, the IRS expressly restricts political activity by
churches who receive tax exemptions, but the laws are largely ignored or
unenforced. Along with all the other civil rights the LGBT community is
denied, we're expected to pay for our own public lynching too. According
to the Mormon Church, they have raised a staggering $6,727,964.43 to
support California's Proposition 8.

Back in 1978, the IRS was asked to look into the tax exemption of the
Mormon Church based on church beliefs that Blacks were inherently
inferior and not suited to hold leadership roles. A revelation suddenly
bolted from Salt Lake City claiming God determined that Black people
were not longer inferior and the IRS inquiry quickly went away.

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--- Xnews/5.04.25