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Franklin Graham: IRS cracked down on my gay-bashing!
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I do not believe that the IRS audit of our two organizations last year is a coincidence or justifiable, Franklin Graham wrote. I am bringing this to your attention because I believe that someone in the administration was targeting and attempting to intimidate us. This is morally wrong and unethical indeed some would call it un-American.
Franklin Graham said his Boone, N.C.-based charity Samaritans Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, which is based in Charlotte, received IRS notices last September that their 2010 activities would be reviewed.
In the letter to Obama and Biden, Graham noted that the evangelistic association named for his father waded into a North Carolina election by running full-page newspaper advertisements urging support for a state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. Both Franklin Graham and the 94-year-old Billy Graham supported Republican nominee Mitt Romney in last years presidential election. Billy Graham also appeared in national newspaper ads and newspaper ads in Ohio urging voters to back candidates who base their decisions on biblical principles, oppose gay marriage and abortion, and defend religious freedoms.
After the November election, Franklin Graham said, the two organizations received official notices that they continued to qualify for exemption from federal income taxes.
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/evangelical-christian-group-pro-israel-jewish-group-say-they-were-targeted-by-irs.php?ref=fpbl
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)The United States Navy Veterans Association (USNVA).
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Franklin sucks too, but he's just a preacher, IRS shakes us down in the name of our neighbors, unfairly using different standards for some minorities, oddly the same minorities Franklin attacks.
Ironic.
zerosumgame0005
(207 posts)what tax advantages do gays get? if they are good enough, I might consider it...
Initech
(100,102 posts)End of debate, They want to endorse candidates, they pay.
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Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Frankie is jumping on the vilify Obama bandwagon.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)I see no problem here.
Fake Christian, fake 'church', fake 'pastor'.
magellan
(13,257 posts)And he's moaning about what, please? That he was investigated and got to retain his tax-exempt status in the end anyway?
The horror!