Democrats To Feds: Investigate FRC’s “Church” Status

July 13, 2024 Christianists, Hate Groups

The Christian Post reports:

A group of Democratic members of Congress are calling on the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the national Christian conservative advocacy organization Family Research Council’s official status as an “association of churches.” Reps. Jared Huffman of California and Suzan DelBene of Washington sent the letter, with 11 other lawmakers joining. The correspondence is addressed to U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.

The Democrats conveyed “continued concerns about the tax-exempt status of certain organizations” such as the FRC, claiming that said groups “are self-identifying as ‘churches’ or ‘associations of churches’ to receive more favorable tax treatment than other tax-exempt organizations.”

“This is a claim that strains credulity: FRC does not hold religious services, does not have a congregation or affiliated congregations, and does not possess many of the other attributes of churches listed by the IRS.”

Read the full article. Multiple other anti-LGBTQ hate groups have successfully gotten reclassified as “churches” in recent years. The change removes the requirement to disclose salaries, board members, grant recipients, and payments to contractors.



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