Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Snuffy Violates IRS Code--Again

Abuses Church's Non-Profit Tax Status by Injecting St. Sabina in Political Campaigns

We and others have pointed this out about Snuffy before. Many times. No one with the ability to do anything about it, especially Americans United Against Non-Marxist Church/State Partnerships, the Chicago Archdiocese or the IRS cared.

This time, his demonstrable activities go beyond dedicating a "substantial part of...activities...carrying on propaganda or otherwise attempting to influence legislation." He's also involved his church in direct campaigning against specific candidates.

Per IRS IRS Publication 557, Tax-Exempt Status for Your Organization:
With this in mind, here's what he's been getting away with. With in-your-face defiance. I took these screen shots in case the links "disappear."

From four years ago:

Note he was careful not to actually come out and endorse anyone or flat out say don't vote for anyone. Wink-wink.

And now for this election:


I had to shrink the page to fit it here, and it's difficult to read. Let's take a closer look:


Note the key language he inserted this time that he did not on prior occasions:
If you want to keep guns off our streets don't vote for them!
Red-handed, Snuffy. Red-snuffing-handed.

This is not about whether or not we agree with the IRS code. What it's about is making sure we are all equal under the law. If Snuffy can do this and suffer no consequences, then a conservative church ought to be able to do so as well, and campaign against anti-gunners.

Thanks to 45Superman at Armed and Safe for calling this latest law-breaking to my attention--I believe he'll have some comments of his own on this, and I'll provide a link when he does. [UPDATE: Here it is.]

Feel fee to share this information. Not that I have hopes anything will come of it.

UPDATE: Feel free to join me.

UPDATE: It's in the Cardinal's hands...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

So there we have it. The most liberal senator will be our next president. God speed to all of you.

Anonymous said...

...and of course: III