While applying with the Internal Revenue Service for tax-exempt status in 2009, an Iowa-based anti-abortion group was asked to provide information about its members' prayer meetings, documents sent by an IRS official to the organization reveal.
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| Private Party Prayer Not Permitted on the Government's Watch |
On June 22, 2009, the Coalition for Life of Iowa received a letter from the IRS office in Cincinnati, Ohio, that oversees tax exemptions requesting details about how often members pray and whether their prayers are "considered educational."
"Please explain how all of your activities, including the prayer meetings held outside of Planned Parenthood, are considered educational as defined under 501(c)(3)," reads the letter, made public by the Thomas More Society, a public interest law firm that collected evidence about the IRS practices. "Organizations exempt under 501(c)(3) may present opinions with scientific or medical facts. Please explain in detail the activities at these prayer meetings.
Also, please provide the percentage of time your organizations spends on prayer groups as compared with the other activities of the organization."My God, the people who support the lefty political machine are mean spirited and intolerant. The lady who was in charge of the Cincinnati mess is now running the IRS's Obamacare compliance operation. I can foresee it now -- next to come is the questioning, regulation and banning of prayer in hospitals. Hospitals are places for medicine and medicine only, deathbed conversions not allowed.
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