BarryAug 1, 2023
coyotebroad
In acquiring church status, the Family Resource Council told the IRS it holds chapel services at its office, averaging 65+ people. But when @ProPublica called to inquire about service times, a staffer responded, “We don’t have church service.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/family-research-council-irs-church-status
Right-Wing Think Tank Family Research Council Is Now a Church in Eyes of the IRS

The FRC, a staunch opponent of abortion and LGBTQ rights, joins a growing list of activist groups seeking church status, which allows organizations to shield themselves from financial scrutiny.

ProPublica
Aug 1, 2023 at 11:06pmWeb
Show threadDwight Williams (💉 x9)+😷🇨🇦Aug 1, 2023

@coyotebroad @ProPublica

Say what???

If that organization is a church, then I'm Kryptonian.

Show threadCabbageAug 2, 2023

@DEWLine @coyotebroad @ProPublica

If that organization is a church, then I sell lettuce

Show threadMxhradAug 1, 2023

@coyotebroad @ProPublica

As usual, conservatives can cheat, the rest of us have to live by the rules. Fuck this.

Show threadCykonotAug 2, 2023

@coyotebroad @ProPublica perhaps religion has been a mixture of tax scam and straight-up psyop all along

Whoda thunk

Show threadErik EllestadAug 2, 2023
@coyotebroad Oh for cripes sake, all churches exist for their own profit. Tax them all. @ProPublica
Show threadTootko TootarovAug 2, 2023
@coyotebroad @ProPublica @0x00string That’s because churches are gangs with a special exemption by the state.
Show threadⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔Aug 2, 2023

@coyotebroad @ProPublica it's far far worse than this article points out and I know this because I was once deeply entangled within. i've had to atone for so much sin after leaving that life and the unethical behavior reframed and justified in god's name.

_shakes the dust of their feet_

Show threadWeaselAug 2, 2023
@coyotebroad @ProPublica
What a surprise: a conservative conspiracy to defraud the United States.
Show threadPatricia KaydenAug 2, 2023
@coyotebroad Lying in Jesus’ name.
Show threadNicole ParsonsAug 2, 2023

@coyotebroad @ProPublica

The massive tax fraud schemes & money laundering represented by fake churches, right wing think tanks, and media management firms.

167 million American women lost their civil rights because of #KochNetwork and its Federalist Society. All funded by oil interests.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-05/miscarriage-stillbirth-prosecutions-await-women-post-roe
40 million POC are at risk of losing access to the ballot, thanks to think tanks like the Claremont Institute.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/22/politics/john-roberts-voting-rights-mystal-blake-cec/index.html

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/02/politics/john-roberts-voting-rights-act/index.html

Post-Roe v. Wade: Criminalization of Abortion, Miscarriages, Stillbirths to Rise

In Texas, 26-year-old Lizelle Herrera was arrested and charged with murder for self-induced abortion. In California, 29-year-old Adora Perez served four years in prison after giving birth to a stillborn son. And in Mississippi, Latice Fisher was jailed after losing her baby at 36 weeks after police found she’d searched for abortion information online.

Bloomberg
Show threadSolarbird Aug 2, 2023
@coyotebroad @ProPublica what’s particularly bizarre about this is that the FRC was spun off of Focus on the Family after FotF got in trouble for being too overtly partisan and was endangering its tax status as a church organisation
Show thread(((JaneinNJ)))Aug 3, 2023
@coyotebroad @ProPublica Jeez Louise…how far from worship do you have to get NOT to be recognized as a church?