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i got a very interesting set of uh... email sent to me all asked me to look
into the merc mormon church
breaking the law allegedly to find mit romney so i went back and did some
research on this and we have a couple of interesting things to look at in june of
two thousand eight
the first presidency of the mormon church lewis sent the letter
the church leaders in california to be read to all congregations
on june twenty ninth of two thousand every guarding the a proposition aids
proposal in california regard doggie marriage and
instructed cult adherence to quote do all you can to support the proposed
constitutional amendment
by donating your means and time to assure that marriage in california is
legally defined as being between a man a woman our best efforts are required to
preserve the secret institution
of marriage okay
that was a cause which discriminated as we know luis against gay and lesbian
couples and um... in keeping with their belief
that apparently
the u_s_ constitution which says that
churches should not be advocating for political beliefs
they apparently believed that that wasn't as important as the morning
e-ticket that as gay marriages bad dates and out this email indicating that uh...
up
congregations should read this
now questionable whether that's really the support of a
candidate is not the support of a candidate but some people argued well
you really supporting just in issue it's not really connected to voting for a
particular candidate so maybe that's within the bear the barometer of a lot
what do you think
uh...
amina and think
technically you would have to be otherwise dirt
there would've been action taken well i don't know about
there would have been action taken but let's assume you're right for a second
back in arjun of twenty eleven
a member of the mormon general authority used l_d_d_s_ church email to solicit
campaign contribution
for willard millington romney's run for president louis
and this is
uh... credit zoo wic
apparently that w craigslist i wonder if his first name is also actually willard
meals by second
that's concerning we should look into that
uh... w cr exotic is a member of the church's first quorum of the seventy
and father of romney's finance chair he wrote
how much can you contribute to the running for president committee today
you can all only give twenty five hundred max for you and your wife
let me know let's take
back america now louis if you mentioned mitt romney in the email
campaigning for a political candidate isn't absolutely okay and according to
revenue ruling two thousand seven dash forty one of the i_r_s_ the law
quote pro hit the political campaign activity by charities and churches by
defining a five oh one c_ three organization as one which what does not
participate in our intervene in any political campaign on behalf of or in
opposition to
any candidate
for public office
now for people who are going to say it was in the i_r_s_ never looked into this
type of thing to some people say that
what about the lava
the i_r_s_ doesn't really look and that's not true in two thousand for the
i_r_s_ elected one hundred and ten of these cases for examination
sixty-nine were issued written advisories
revoked the tax exempt status of five organizations by the i_r_s_ and propose
revocation for two others
so the i_r_s_ can and does look into these things
they should be looking into this
but that's that's apparently what you can do you hear you can't uh...
and organizations are separate our sovereign entities within the chair the
mormon church so each church you're saying is is as an individual mentor at
clearly that's what's happening here because they're saying that they would
vote the taxes and status of five organizations
that's not the mormon church i mean the mormon church is how many hundreds maybe
thousands of or should show we need to look at here in this particular case we
have we have one anyway where we we we should be looking into this and the
reality that is is
we know but this is going on constantly
we we know that i try to nobody's surprise that there is on the record
mormon church advocacy of mit romney
under the guise of being a tax-exempt of community of religious education
organization of some kind
so waiting to happen will anything happen what would it take
or any of these churches tool to actually lose tax-exempt status and you
know what
i think there would be so much lobbying pressure against this from the
republican side because they know how it would negatively affect mit romney
that it would be so hard for me to imagine though though actual law
taking presidents here over over political posturing and seeing some of
revoking of these non-profit status
yeah i think you clearly you can't
remove it
texan status for every
mormon church organization uh... i don't think that would be fair
and i thank you and even if you do you remove it for the ones uh...
for a few
they could easily just
uh... what's the word appeal
no i'm not even appeal they could easily just uh...
dissolve
and former under a new organization automatically
having their taxed at least ask money
well it's uh... feel like it's just
like he can win
all right what do you think what will it take for these organizations it doesn't
just have to pack to be mitt romney in the mormon church we see it all the time
when it comes to you
uh... diff boating for candidates who are against abortion voting for
candidates who are against gay marriage we see this and also a source of
churches what would actually take to get
uh... some kind of legal action here as far as the non-profit status you tell me
to take a lot