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I mentioned a different pro-life group last night that had problems with the IRS.

IRS tells pro-life ministry to promote abortion

…Shinn launched Cherish Life Ministries, a separate organization, to offer help to a coalition of churches that supports mothers struggling with unexpected pregnancies, promotes abstinence and advocates for an end to abortion in the community, state and nation….

But Shinn said the IRS contacted him regarding his application for nonprofit status, and was told he didn’t qualify.

“The representative was telling me I had to provide information on all aspects of abortion, I couldn’t just educate the church from the pro-life perspective,” he said. “Every time I pressed her on this issue and asked her to clarify her position, she would state that it wasn’t what she was saying, and then, she would repeat it almost the same way.”

…But Shinn said he was accused of setting up a political organization.

“I asked her why she said we were political organization and she said it was because we had said in our application that we did less than 5 percent political activity. I explained to her that this was what was stated in the application and all we were doing was acknowledging that we were doing less than 5 percent political activity,” he said.

He said the woman then accused him of having links to political activity on his website, even though he said he did not.

“She told me … they were going to deny my application,” he told WND. “She did get nervous though in the end when I pressed her that I wanted specific information about why I had to educate from a pro-abortion perspective not just pro-life….I also told her that Planned Parenthood does not teach about pro-life issues yet they are also still a 501(c)(3).”

From the site:
http://cherishlifeministries.com/index.php/irsand501c3

I’m sure you have heard about the IRS targeting groups who call themselves conservative, patriot or Tea Party. I can tell you from my expereience, I believe they are targeting pro-life groups and churches who might talk about the pro-life issue as well.

Our corporation, Cherish Life Ministries, has been legal for a while now, but one thing was missing, the 501(c)(3). We wondered what was taking so long for it to come, and 2 weeks ago, we found out. I received a letter from the IRS stating that we didn’t qualify as a non-profit organization because we were a political organization. I called our contact at the IRS and that person confirmed what she had written in her formal denial of 501(c)(3) status to us.

I can’t share too much about our case right now, but I think you can see there’s something wrong with our American non-profit system which is ruled by the IRS.

INC on May 15, 2013 at 5:58 PM