Pro-Abortion Org Files IRS Complaint Against Catholic Pro-Life Group
From LifeNews.com:
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A leading pro-abortion group, Catholics for Free Choice, is attacking Priests for Life, a top pro-life organization, and claiming that it is violating its status as a nonprofit entity by posting videos of pro-life Sen. Sam Brownback on its web site.
Brownback is a Republican presidential candidate and has been endorsed personally by PFL director Father Frank Pavone but not by the organization as a whole.
The pro-abortion group, seen as heretical by faithful Catholics, filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service against Priests for Life over the videos. It alleges that the videos' appearance on the PFL web site constitutes an illegal campaign endorsement.
The videos feature a montage of the 2007 March for Life in Washington and of Brownback making remarks both there and at another pro-life event that day.
"The two videos clearly demonstrate PFL’s support for Brownback’s candidacy," CFFC said in a statement LifeNews.com obtained.
“The production, editing, and online hosting of these videos appears to represent a significant-and illegal-outlay of charitable funds," the group said in its letter to the IRS.
Pavone calls the latest CFFC complaint, the third time the pro-abortion group has attacked Priests for Life, "silly" and says it's meant to intimidate his group.
Pavone said the video "is not an endorsement from Priests for Life" for Brownback but is meant to encourage pro-life advocates to look into the pro-life candidates seeking the presidency.
"We want people to understand you have to elect people who are going to protect life," Pavone told the Amarillo, Texas newspaper.
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Previous Pro Ecclesia posts on this subject:
Fr. Pavone Says Brownback is His Choice in ‘08
Priests for Life on "Mr. Brownback"
Labels: Brownback, Culture of Death, Dissident Catholics, Priests, Pro-Life
posted by Pro Ecclesia 9:01 PM
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6 Comments:
God bless Fr. Frank Pavone.
Fr. Pavone, and Fr. Euteneuer give me hope for the future of the Church! Onward Church militant!
When all else fails, get the government to do the dirty work. Unfortunately in our national government there are too many people willing to take on just such a task.
Those wacky "Catholics" for a Free Choicers.
Caveat:
I do not like: CFFC, or the tax law provision forbidding participation in political campaigns by non-profits.
I do like: Priests for Life, Fr. Pavone, and Sen. Brownback.
However ...
Looking at Priests for Life's website, and considering the tax laws as they currently exist, I'm afraid the complainers may have a point.
All that our fore fathers did for our country is surely going down the drain. What they intended for us is slowly being taken away. What is so dangerous that it is now
in the goverment , and our politicans who vote as they like and not what the people want. If this continues how are we going to be able to anything about the losing of our freedom of speech and religion. Also to stop abortions, Momzig
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