Pro-life vid of day, caught on tape: IRS says pro-lifers can’t “force beliefs”
As reported yesterday by LifeSiteNews, IRS Exempt Organization Specialist Sherry Wan spoke with Ania Joseph of the Texas group Pro-Life Revolution, insisting that the organization remain neutral on abortion and avoid speaking to abortion-minded women in order to obtain tax exemption:
The legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom represents the group, which did not receive its tax-exempt status until last week, nearly two-and-a-half years after applying for it.
“The IRS is a tax collector; it shouldn’t be allowed to be the speech and belief police,” said Senior Legal Counsel Erik Stanley. “The current scandal isn’t new but has merely exposed the abuse of power that characterizes this agency and threatens our fundamental freedoms.”…
In March 2012, Joseph received the call from Wan that is depicted in the recording.
IRS Caught on Tape from ADF Media Relations on Vimeo.
Continued from LSN:
In February of this year, the IRS requested additional information in another letter and attempted to apply a standard for tax exemption to Pro-Life Revolution that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit held to be unconstitutional in 1980. Alliance Defending Freedom pointed this out in a letter responding to the IRS, which finally granted tax-exempt status to the organization in a letter received Thursday.
“The power to tax is the power to destroy,” added Stanley…. “We cannot allow the IRS to ruthlessly dictate against legitimate non-profits simply because it does not approve of the organization’s mission….”
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
The entire idea behind separation of church and state was so the state wouldn’t force church on people. Social secular humanism is the state religion of the USA according to such enforcers.
Wonder how this will play out with Shariah pushers?
After all submission is required – whether you are secular or not.
Perhaps the symbol above “IRS”(upper left corner) would more appropriately be a swastika instead of a fairly balanced scale.
Sleep well tonite, Obama’s brownshirts will be looking out for you.
There are several problems with the IRS saying pro-lifers can’t force their beliefs on others:
1) True pro-lifers do not try to force their beliefs on anyone. The problem is that groups like the IRS redefine force to mean “any attempt”.
2) In saying this, the IRS is forcing their beliefs on pro-lifers. Or more exactly, they are forcing pro-lifers to act according to IRS beliefs, and forcing them to act in ways not in accord with their own beliefs.
3) Not allowing a group to express their beliefs arbitrarily, without consideration of whether they are actually forcing or hurting anyone or not, is unconstitutional.
4) The IRS is not telling pro-choicers and pro-abortionists that they can’t “force” their beliefs on others. In fact, they force their beliefs on others regularly. It’s called abortion. And the government, which includes the IRS, supports this our of our hard-earned tax dollars.
The real problem of course is that the IRS should not even exist. Then they wouldn’t be here to use time and our taxes to promote government agendas.