Posted by:
gentlestrength
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Date: August 22, 2013 12:55PM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/21/atheists-lawsuit-irs_n_3792145.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009This subject comes up occasionally. The Mormon church first and foremost is a for profit corporation with tax-exempt status. There are posters who dismiss without explanation an effort to challenge this exempt status.
I posted this to respond. Your dismissive posts are just cynical and are unfounded. The timing for success may not be soon, but maybe that is because the fight against abusing tax-exempt status has had to be started by others willing to fight later than was necessary.
The LDS Church should have their tax exempt status challenged, their books examined and their financial charitable contributions validated as worth of the massive subsidies provided them by much larger populations they politically and socially seek to damage (atheists, Catholics, homosexuals, women).
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f13909.pdfI am attaching a form that can be filled out for those that want to report a possible violation of this law to the IRS. There are multiple ways to send this to the IRS--I also recommend sending this to friends in California, management of Prop 8 was clearly a violation. We also heard from a few infrequent poster that El Paso County elections clerk in Colorado Springs used church buildings, members, and resources to organize a Republican voter registration drive and have evidence on video of Victoria Bautista in front of a Safeway registering only Republicans for her Mormon leader. That's a violation worthy of reporting and investigation. They are doing the violating, we just need to report them and ask our government to stop them. It won't be easy, doing nothing is easier, saying it won't work is easier, but it it worth doing what you can.
Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 08/22/2013 01:22PM by gentlestrength.