PPSIMMONS is a non-tax exempt organization. People who donate to this ministry either through the donate tab on the right side of this blog or through donating to our Paypal account - ppsimmons@live.com - do so with the full knowledge they will not be getting a receipt for tax deduction purposes.
However...
PPSIMMONS, as a result of having nothing to do with IRS tax exemption, is unencumbered by the rules that go with it. And now it seems PPSIMMONS has made the right decision by choosing this route.
From WND:
A new tape recording has been released that reveals an Internal Revenue Service agent stumbling and hesitating her way through a telephone call with a non-profit organization with the basic message that its officials are not allowed to spread their pro-life message.
Officials with the Alliance Defending Freedom said the situation developed while an application for tax status was pending for a nonprofit organization that provides support to women in abusive pregnancy situations
The recorded conversation reveals the IRS agent, Sherry Wan, telling Ania Joseph of Pro-Life Revolution, "You cannot, you know, use your religious belief to tell other people you don't have a belief, so I don't believe you need the right to do this, start confrontation, protesting, uh, prot, uh, protest. .. You don't apply for tax exemption."
The ADF reported the organization did not get its tax-exempt status until last week – nearly two and a half years after requesting the designation.
"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."
Pro-Life Revolution operates from Texas for religious, education and charitable purposes, and in January 2011 asked for the tax status designation.
Michael D. Shoesmith
Social Networking Director
Ministry Coordinator
PPSIMMONS/CGM
In my opinion, people in the ministry made a big mistake when they bought into the 501c3 tax exempt lie introduced by then President Lyndon Johnson because free speech was already tax exempt for the Christian church and guaranteed by the American Constitution.
ReplyDeleteBy applying for something they already had under our Constitution, they opened themselves up to a government controlled Christian church already owned and controlled by Jesus Christ Himself, and making themselves objects of rules dictated by the government.
Applying for and accepting a 501c3 exempt status which the Christian church in America already has under the Constitution amounts to receiving "hush money" from the Federal government as we have seen in this one of many examples.