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brooklynite

(94,585 posts)
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 01:49 PM Oct 2019

U.S.'s Biggest Christian Charity Reportedly Channeled $56.1 Million To Purported Hate Groups

Source: Newsweek

The nation's eighth-largest nonprofit donated $56.1 million to a series of organizations identified as hate groups from 2015 to 2017, according to a report from Sludge.

National Christian Foundation, which identifies itself as the largest Christian grant maker and one of the largest donor-advised funds in the nation, has served as a vehicle for individuals trying to anonymously send money.

Donor-advised funds allow individuals sending the tax deductible contributions to remain anonymous from the IRS and instruct where they want the payments to be sent. For those donating via NCF, this meant sending money to 23 organizations that the Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled hate groups. Most of the hate organizations that received money from the NCF opposed LGBT rights. The report also found that the NCF donated to anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant organizations.

Organizations receiving the most funds from NCF included the Alliance Defending Freedom, which has advocated for sterilizing transgender individuals, and the Family Research Council, which has advocated conversion therapy. Members of the Family Research Council including Tony Perkins, the organization's president, have sought to link pedophilia and homosexuality.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/biggest-christian-charity-funding-hate-groups-1370055

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U.S.'s Biggest Christian Charity Reportedly Channeled $56.1 Million To Purported Hate Groups (Original Post) brooklynite Oct 2019 OP
Frauds. nt chowder66 Oct 2019 #1
Lock up the lying rw pretend christians. They are totally fake news and all hate. lark Oct 2019 #2
Well well,a News Rag Wellstone ruled Oct 2019 #3
That's because, these days BillyBobBrilliant Oct 2019 #4
Hate to break it to you, but "Christian charities" have been giving money... Raster Oct 2019 #22
Yes I agree I_UndergroundPanther Oct 2019 #28
no surprise here llashram Oct 2019 #5
More like the safeinOhio Oct 2019 #6
Ding! Ding! Raster Oct 2019 #23
Sounds Like A Tax Deductible Money Laundering Operation DallasNE Oct 2019 #7
See, that was my first thought LittleGirl Oct 2019 #9
Bingo. Rich get to funnel $s anonymously to the hate group of their choice. joost5 Oct 2019 #10
As the NRA,another conduit for Putin cash to Repug politicians&Christo-Petrofascist 501(c)(3)s. stuffmatters Oct 2019 #13
Because Jesus was all about hating those who were different... dlk Oct 2019 #8
Another reason to tax religious orgs and churches. ancianita Oct 2019 #11
Yep ck4829 Oct 2019 #25
Sounds positively Christlike. dchill Oct 2019 #12
Wow. Never heard of the NCF. Knew FRC and Perkins. Mc Mike Oct 2019 #14
Quite Jesusy of them. MontanaMama Oct 2019 #15
No tax exemption for you cp Oct 2019 #16
XINO? moonseller66 Oct 2019 #17
How do you tell? uriel1972 Oct 2019 #18
"Christians" plus ignoranceChristian hate. truthisfreedom Oct 2019 #19
Tony Perkins, you can link pedophilia and clergy easily enough. keithbvadu2 Oct 2019 #20
Mrs. Betty Bowers SaulofTucson Oct 2019 #21
K&R for exposure ck4829 Oct 2019 #24
seems only sensible that money would go to these hate groups for a christian charity doesn't it? beachbumbob Oct 2019 #26
Another reason why 2naSalit Oct 2019 #27
I agree tax the fuck out of them and I_UndergroundPanther Oct 2019 #29

lark

(23,102 posts)
2. Lock up the lying rw pretend christians. They are totally fake news and all hate.
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 02:05 PM
Oct 2019

RW hypocritical criminal fascists is who these asses support. They are not worth the time to spit on them, lthough it would be understandable because they are so very deserving.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
3. Well well,a News Rag
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 02:19 PM
Oct 2019

actually doing their fourth estate duty to report out Corruption. Been on hell of a long time since we saw this. Now if they would go after the Moscow Assets on Capital Hill,then that would be a interesting story.

Raster

(20,998 posts)
22. Hate to break it to you, but "Christian charities" have been giving money...
Wed Oct 9, 2019, 11:57 AM
Oct 2019

...to hate groups, homophobic groups, misogynistic groups and anti-immigrant groups FOR YEARS. In fact commercial Christianity is promulgated on hate, on fear, on divisiveness.

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,480 posts)
28. Yes I agree
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 11:57 PM
Oct 2019

Republicans are just a facet of a bigger bunch of connected criminals. Like an iceberg,it looks small on top but underneath it's huge and disgusting. And has more ugly facets.

DallasNE

(7,403 posts)
7. Sounds Like A Tax Deductible Money Laundering Operation
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 03:27 PM
Oct 2019

Meaning we, the people, are helping to finance hate groups. Nothing to see here.

LittleGirl

(8,287 posts)
9. See, that was my first thought
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 03:44 PM
Oct 2019

They write off that donation and yet remain anonymous. That shouldn’t be legal.

Can we please run our government with honest people. For the love of Pete and our beautiful place in the States! It’s WE The People! Not them vs Us.

Houston, we have a problem.

There’s too much hate! Stop It. Now.

joost5

(421 posts)
10. Bingo. Rich get to funnel $s anonymously to the hate group of their choice.
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 03:52 PM
Oct 2019

Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Need to expose what's under this rock.

dlk

(11,566 posts)
8. Because Jesus was all about hating those who were different...
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 03:29 PM
Oct 2019

When religious organizations become involved in politics, they should automatically lose their tax exempt status. Separation of church and state is Constitutional.

dchill

(38,502 posts)
12. Sounds positively Christlike.
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 04:02 PM
Oct 2019

Giving generously for a whiter America! Anonymously, of course. Economic martyrs!

Mc Mike

(9,114 posts)
14. Wow. Never heard of the NCF. Knew FRC and Perkins.
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 04:31 PM
Oct 2019

Donor-advised fund, tax deductible, and anonymous to the IRS.

Rich nazi pigs who are 'christian'. I'm a catholic and never heard of the biggest christian grant maker.

moonseller66

(430 posts)
17. XINO?
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 05:24 PM
Oct 2019

We have RINO and DINO. Why not popularize "XINO" - Xtians in name only?

That IS what the really are, right?

keithbvadu2

(36,816 posts)
20. Tony Perkins, you can link pedophilia and clergy easily enough.
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 08:49 PM
Oct 2019

Tony Perkins, you can link pedophilia and clergy easily enough.

Tony Perkins, you can link homosexuality and clergy easily enough.

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