“A bit of advice that would be quite interesting to every church in America.”

IRS religious persecution of a Christian organization caught on tape.

(ADF Media Relations) –In March 2012, Ania Joseph received a call from IRS Exempt Organization Specialist Sherry Wan, who told her that Pro-Life Revolution cannot “force” its religion or beliefs on anyone else. Wan inaccurately told Joseph that the organization must remain neutral on positions such as abortion in order to qualify for a tax exemption. The IRS has approved applications for tax exemption for pro-abortion groups such as Planned Parenthood and Life and Liberty for Women.

Full audio: adfmedia.org/files/ProLifeRevolutionIRScall.wav
Full transcript: adfmedia.org/files/ProLifeRevolutionCallTranscriptIRS.pdf

Obama’s IRS jack boot army stomping on 1st amendment rights of Christians and conservatives.

 

Agent (:44 – 1:17) – Yeah, you have the religious freedom; the freedom of speech. And other people also have the civil rights; human rights. 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. [unintelligible] You don’t apply for tax exemption.

Crosstalk (1:17 – 1:18)

Agent (1:18 – 1:38) – Nobody will go after you as long as you don’t violate the law. But when you come to apply for tax exemption, you have to keep your action to, you know, exactly what is
educational or religious, you know you [unintelligible].

Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) press release:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

IRS caught on tape: Keep faith to yourself

Non-profit group waited for tax-exempt approval for almost 2-1/2 years
Monday, June 10, 2013

Attorney sound bites:  Erik Stanley #1  |  Erik Stanley #2

WASHINGTON — Alliance Defending Freedom made public Monday audio of a phone conversation that the Internal Revenue Service placed to a non-profit organization that provides support to women in abusive pregnancy situations. In the recorded phone conversation, an IRS agent lectures the president of the organization about forcing its religion and beliefs on others and inaccurately explains that the group must remain neutral on issues such as abortion.

Alliance Defending Freedom represents the group, which did not receive its tax-exempt status until last week, nearly two and a half years after applying for it.

“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.”

The IRS grants tax exemptions to religious, educational, and/or charitable organizations. In January 2011, Pro-Life Revolution, which operates from Texas under all three purposes, filed an application for tax-exempt status with the IRS.

Four months later, the IRS sent a letter requesting “more information” and an explanation of how the organization’s activities are educational or charitable even though IRS rules specify that an organization need only operate for “one or more” of the three exempt purposes. President of Pro-Life Revolution Ania Joseph nonetheless replied and answered the IRS’s questions.

In March 2012, Joseph received a call from IRS Exempt Organization Specialist Sherry Wan, who told her that, in order to obtain a tax exemption, “You cannot force your religion or force your beliefs on somebody else…. You have to know your boundaries. You have to know your limits. You have to respect other people’s beliefs.” The IRS has approved applications for tax exemption for pro-abortion groups such as Planned Parenthood and Life and Liberty for Women.

In February of this year, the IRS requested additional information in another letter and attempted to apply a standard for tax exemption to Pro-Life Revolution that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit held to be unconstitutional in 1980. Alliance Defending Freedom pointed this out in a letter responding to the IRS, which finally granted tax-exempt status to the organization in a letter received Thursday.

“The power to tax is the power to destroy,” added Stanley. “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. We cannot allow the IRS to ruthlessly dictate against legitimate non-profits simply because it does not approve of the organization’s mission. It must be held accountable.”

• Photo: Ania Joseph, president of Pro-Life Revolution

• Phone call between Ania Joseph and IRS agent Sherry Wan: Full audio (10:13) | Audio clips with words graphically displayed on screen |  Full transcript

• Pronunciation guide: Ania (AHN’-yuh), Wan (WAHN’)

Related: Stunning! #IRSHearing Revelation! #IRS Asked Pro-Life Group To “Detail Content Of Members Prayers”

(Washington Examiner) Retired Baltimore Ravens center Matt Birk, who won a Super Bowl with the team last year, skipped the team’s visit to the White House due to President Obama’s support for Planned Parenthood.

“I have great respect for the office of the presidency but about five or six weeks ago, our president made a comment in a speech and he said, ‘God bless Planned Parenthood,’” Birk, a former Minnesota Viking, told a local Minnesota sports blog. “I’m very confused by [Obama's] statement,” he explained. “For God to bless a place where they’re ending 330,000 lives a year? I just chose not to attend.”

Kirk said he’s a pro-life Roman Catholic. “Planned Parenthood performs about 330,000 abortions a year,” he said. “I couldn’t endorse that in any way.”

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Another group was directed to explain whether they provided a’ fair and balanced’ approach to their pro-life educational programming, as in including pro-abortion information. I somehow doubt pro-abortion groups rights’ were trampled upon in the same manner.
Via Todd Starnes:

Obama’s ‘enemies list’ includes pro-life Christians

The Internal Revenue Service allegedly told an Iowa pro-life group they had to sign documents promising not to protest or picket Planned Parenthood and they told a Texas pro-life organization they had to promote abortion, according to documents obtained by Fox News.

“The IRS was concerned about advocacy,” said Sally Wagenmaker, special counsel to the Thomas More Society. “The (agent) said picketing and protesting is not allowed.”

She said the IRS’s role “should only be to determine whether organizations fit the section 501(c)(3) test for ‘charitable, religious, or educational’ qualification, not to inquire about the content of prayers, protests, and petitions.”
……
Wagenmaker was representing Coalition for Life of Iowa and Christian Voices For Life of Fort Bend County, Texas. Both groups were seeking tax exempt status. Their requests were eventually granted but only after they sought legal help from the Thomas More Society.

In 2009 the Coalition for Life received correspondence from the IRS raising questions about their prayer activity – specifically outside Planned Parenthood clinics.

“You then asked … to have all Coalition Board members sign a statement that the coalition will not ‘picket’ or ‘protest’ outside of Planned Parenthood or similar organizations and will not ‘organize’ others to do so,” Wagenmaker wrote in a letter to an IRS representative known only as “Ms. Richards.”

Wagenmaker said the IRS’s demand was clearly a violation of the pro-life group’s constitutional rights.
……
In the case of Christian Voices, the IRS implied that the group had to include pro-abortion balance to their programming.

They were directed to explain whether the group’s educational programs educate both sides of the issues.

Not an overstep, a failed JACKBOOT STOMPING.
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Twenty First Century NAZI-LIKE Horror in the United States.
Via Christian News:

Bronx, New York – A new undercover video released by a prominent pro-life organization shows an abortion worker explaining how a baby that is born alive after a failed abortion procedure would be placed into a jar of solution to be killed.

Live Action, which has conducted undercover investigations on the abortion industry for nearly two decades, uploaded footage on Sunday of a 23-week pregnant woman asking a staff member at Women’s Health Center in Bronx, New York about how her abortion procedure would be carried out.

“Is it pretty big?” the woman asks, wearing a spy camera. “Do you know how big it is?”

“It’s six months,” the employee answers. “It’s fully grown.”

“So, it has all the part and stuff, you think?” the woman inquires.

“Yeah,” the staff member answers.

The woman then questions the worker about how the baby is removed, and if he or she comes out in one piece during the procedure.
“They start falling apart,” the employee answers, explaining that the baby will be ripped out of the womb by a suction device.

“I don’t know why you want to know all this. Just do it!” she adds, laughing. [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: APRIL 28, 2013

CONTACT: DREW BELSKY, MEDIA@LIVEACTION.ORG, 856-535-1635

Undercover Video Reveals Bronx, NY Abortion Clinic Would Put Born-Alive Baby in Jar of Toxic Solution to Ensure Death, Suggests Flushing Baby if Delivered at Home During Procedure

Six-Month Undercover Investigation to Shed Light on Abortion Industry’s Inhuman, Illegal, and Gruesome Practices

Arlington, VA: Live Action today released an undercover video of an abortion counselor at a clinic in the Bronx, NY, describing, with gruesome details, what is done with a baby who survives an abortion attempt. This is the first in a series of undercover videos, found at www.liveaction.org/inhuman, involving a number of late-term abortion clinics engaging in illegal and inhuman practices, as well as explaining in explicit detail what happens to the victims of late-term abortion.

“Dr. Kermit Gosnell is not alone,” said Lila Rose, Founder and President of Live Action. “The gruesome and inhuman practices exposed in Gosnell’s ‘House of Horrors’ are business as usual for the abortion industry in America. These children’s lives are brutally destroyed when they are the most defenseless. This isn’t ‘choice’; this is murder.”

The Bronx, NY abortion counselor is caught on tape describing, in gruesomely precise terms, how late-term abortions happen.

She details what is done with a baby after the abortion and advises to “flush” the baby down the toilet if he or she is delivered at home before the final stage of the two- or three-day abortion procedure.

“If it comes out, then it comes out. Flush it. … if anything, you know, put it in a bag or something or somewhere and bring it to us.”

When Live Action’s undercover investigator asks what happens to the baby after the abortion – or what the clinic would do if, after the abortion, the baby is moving – the counselor says:

“If it did come out in one piece, it’s very small. So they would still have to put it in a container – like, a jar – with solution and send it to the lab.”

When asked what happens if the baby after the abortion is breathing or twitching, the Bronx counselor responds:

“The solution will make it stop. It’s not going to be moving around in the jar … that’s the whole purpose of the solution.”

“It’ll automatically stop. It won’t be able to…not with the solution.”

Rose is calling on NY state government and health officials and U.S. prosecutors to investigate the Bronx clinic and conduct a statewide investigation into other clinics that perform late-term abortions.

From the letter to Health Commissioner Shah: “[W]e have reason to believe that abortionists and staff at the Dr. Emily Woman’s Health Center are operating under conditions that endanger women and children to the point of disease and even death. We therefore urge you to immediately revoke the license of this clinic. ”

“These abortion clinics are abusing human life in unimaginable ways,” Rose said, “but our society has become so numb to what is going on behind their doors. Babies born alive from a failed abortion should not be put in a jar of toxic solution, or flushed down a toilet. How could anyone condone this kind of inhuman and brutal treatment of a helpless, innocent child?”

MAKE NO MISTAKE. If they are willing to snuff out the life of an innocent newborn child without remorse on the basis of inconvenience, as if they were simply tossing out yesterday’s garbage, they are capable of ANYTHING.

REMINDER: Obama on Anniversary of Roe vs Wade: Girls Have Right to Kill Their Babies That Stand in the Way of Fulfilling Their Dreams

Fight FOCA

President Obama made a promise to Planned Parenthood they expect him to keep.

“The first thing I’d do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. That’s the first thing I’d do.”

The Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) would eliminate every restriction on abortion nationwide.

• FOCA will do away with state laws on parental involvement, on partial birth abortion, and on all other protections.
• FOCA will compel taxpayer funding of abortions.
• FOCA will force faith-based hospitals and healthcare facilities to perform abortions.

Barack Obama believes this legislation will “end the culture wars.” To him, “ending the culture wars” means eradicating every state and federal law on abortion — laws that the majority of Americans support.

Progressives shed tears for anchor babies and GITMO detainees, but when it comes to the sanctity of human life; a baby in a mother’s womb, they are stone cold, soulless creatures.

Here’s a running list of Obama’s Pro-Abortion record at Life Site News. It is quite lengthy. You may find incidents that you hadn’t heard of before. I know I did.

Another gruesome Obama baby killing REMINDER:

(Gateway Pundit) –In an audio Barack Obama defended his decision to support infanticide. Obama coldly claimed that two doctors helping a baby born alive after a botched abortion would be a burden when he argued against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act at the Illinois state legislature April 2002.

“Essentially adding an additional doctor who then has to be called in an emergency situation to come in and make these assessments is really designed simply to burden the original decision…”

Ask yourself: If the life of a newborn baby; who by the grace of God has survived a botched abortion is an inconvenient “burden”, what if one day your life is deemed an inconvenience.

Related:
‘Sex-Selective Abortions’ The Left-Wing’s ‘War On Women’ Begins At Conception –Obama/Dems Oppose Ban [Update: Failure to Pass 7 Republicans Voted Nay]

Doc Drop: Grand Jury Report: Philly Abortionist Kermit B. Gosnell Multiple Murder Charges [Updated]

Support Hobby Lobby Against Government Tyranny

Support Hobby Lobby shopping day Saturday, January 5, 2013 9:00 am – 7:00 pm

(FreedomWorks) –When a government oversteps its limitations, citizens will sometimes grumble or gripe. When it’s the American government overstepping the bounds of the Constitution, Americans band together and take it a little more seriously.

When local governments tried to stomp on Chick-Fil-A’s right to free speech, a grassroots movement organized a day to support them. Americans swarmed to the restaurants on  Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day, shattering sales records. A similar event was planned to support Papa John’s Pizza after owner John Schattner was realistic about the ramifications of Obamacare. Now, the government is treading on the religious beliefs, and ultimately the first amendment rights of business owners, and Americans are poised to step up to the plate again.

As Christians, the Green family who own Hobby Lobby are unable to provide the morning-after pill as part of their healthcare coverage without violating their religious beliefs. As that coverage is required under Obamacare, this conflict has set off a legal battle that still rages on. In order to comply with their religious beliefs, the Greens could be out up to $1.3 million per day in fines. That would be more than $40 million this month alone.

Fortunately, the American people have their backs. This Saturday, January 5th, has been appointed as the day to support Hobby Lobby with our wallets. It is getting costly to take a stand against the overreaching government, however, we can pitch in to show our support to business owners who are willing to do so and to show the government that these businesses do not stand alone. Our Constitution must be defended.

Update: Tens of thousands pledge to participate

(LifeNews) –Tens of thousands of Americans have committed to support the Christian crafts store Hobby Lobby on January 5 after courts have refused to issued an ruling stopping the Obama HHS mandate.

Hobby Lobby will incur $1.3 million in fines each day from the Obama administration for not following the mandate, which forces companies to play for birth control and drugs that may cause abortions for their employees. To support the company, one supporter has launched a new effort, that has quickly gone viral, to patronize the business.

Organizer Joe Grabowski told LifeNews: “Inspired by the “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day” promoted this past August by Governor Mike Huckabee, a similar grassroots initiative has cropped up in the past few days at www.StandWithHobbyLobby.com. The Facebook-driven campaign has already collected more than 18,000 people who have pledged to shop at the store on Saturday.”

“On Saturday, January 5th, all Americans who value freedom of religion and oppose the HHS Mandate’s unfair impositions upon religious individuals and corporate entities are called upon to show their support for Hobby Lobby by shopping either at their local retail Hobby Lobby store or online,” he said. [...]

H/T Ruth Ann McClain‘s event page at The Tea Party Community

Hobby Lobby’s website: http://www.hobbylobby.com

Hobby Lobby on Twitter: http://twitter.com/hobbylobbystore

Hobby Lobby on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hobbylobby

Also see:
Hobby Lobby Fined $1.3M PER DAY Beginning January 1 2013: Sotomayor Defers to Muslim Inmate’s Belief – Refuses Emergency Injunction for Christian Family

Hobby Lobby and the Loss of America’s Soul

First for context, Dunham’s Obama ad (it’s an official Obama ad BTW):

Now for Julie Borowski’s razor sharp parody:

“Your first time shouldn’t be with just anybody. You want to do your first political ad with a real misogynist. It should be with a guy who sees women as purely sexual objects”

“I compared women’s participation in the political process with sexual intercourse”

“I set women back a couple decades”

Ladies, on November 6, 2012, vote with your smarts, not your lady parts.

I know I will.

Velvet out.

“You can take a videotape of things I said 10 years ago, 12 years ago
and you’d say, ‘Man this is the same guy,’”
– Obama on the campaign trail in Iowa Oct. 24, 2012

Matthew Boyle of the Daily Caller:

In a 1999 legislative vote, then-Illinois State Senator Barack Obama was the sole state senator to not vote for for a bill that would protect sexual assault victims from having the details of their cases revealed publicly.

On May 11 of that year, Obama voted “present” on a bill, ultimately made law, that allows victims of sex crimes to request that their cases be sealed from public view following a criminal conviction. Illinois Senate voting records show that Obama was the only senator who did not vote in favor of the bill.

Obama’s unique objection to voting for a bill meant to protect victims of sex crimes is a substantial departure from the picture he has attempted to paint for women voters.
……
Obama would later vote “present” on the bill a second time when it returned to the state Senate Judiciary Committee, following passage by the state House. In that committee vote, two other state senators joined Obama in voting “present.”

As he runs for re-election, Obama has made women’s rights — and a supposed Republican “war on women” — a focal point of his campaign. Rape-related gaffes from Republican Senate candidates like Richard Mourdock in Indiana and Rep. Todd Akin in Missouri have become springboards for Obama’s attempts to drive a political wedge between Republicans and women voters.

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Is the Daily Caller to conservatively partisan for your taste? Then allow me to present this 2007 NY Times report:

Among those, Mr. Obama did not vote yes or no on a bill that would allow certain victims of sexual crimes to petition judges to seal court records relating to their cases. He also voted present on a bill to impose stricter standards for evidence a judge is permitted to consider in imposing a criminal sentence.

On the sex crime bill, Mr. Obama cast the lone present vote in a 58-to-0 vote.

Mr. Obama’s campaign said he believed that the bill violated the First Amendment. The bill passed 112-0-0 in the House and 58-0-1 in the Senate. [...]

H/T The Lonely Conservative who opines:

I guess Obama is only concerned about rape victims who want to have abortions.

McAllen, Texas

The logic behind that is so twisted, it is tied in knots.

Amanda Edwards reports at LifeNews.com:

(Excerpt)

My husband and I were wanting to start a local Bound4Life chapter in the South Texas region. I decided to do some research on the local abortion center, Whole Woman’s Health Clinic, before we headed down there so we would know how to pray. Finding nothing more than some vague information on their website, I decided to call them directly.

I told the receptionist who took my call that I was doing research, trying to gather information on resources in the area. I explained that my husband and I work with youth… some from low income families and we would like to know where we could send women who may need help.

The lady was polite but guarded and sounded annoyed. Every question I asked was answered with a quick “yes” or “yeah” or “no.” Call me crazy, but if I wanted women to come in for services, I would be jumping at the chance to tell all about them. I had to dig. Really dig.

Our conversation went like this:

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