Nonprofit Groups Question Motive for Fed Actions (liberal grps targeted?)

New York Times:
Nonprofit Groups Question Motive for Federal Actions
By STEPHANIE STROM

Published: March 21, 2005


The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is locked in a standoff with the Internal Revenue Service, preferring to risk its tax exemption rather than hand over documents for an I.R.S. review that the civil rights group contends is politically motivated....

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Roughly a dozen nonprofit organizations have publicly contended that government agencies and Congressional offices have used reviews, audits, investigations, law enforcement actions and the threat of a loss of federal money to discourage them from activities and advocacy that in any way challenge government policies, and nonprofit leaders say more are complaining quietly....

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Gauging whether liberal groups are being singled out for review more than conservative ones is almost impossible to determine because audits, investigations and threats are rarely made public....

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Another agency that says it has been singled out for government scrutiny is Advocates for Youth, which operates programs that educate young people around the world about reproductive health and has received federal money for various programs for more than two decades.

It opposes the Bush administration's push for the adoption of programs that advocate abstinence as the only way to prevent childhood pregnancy and sexual transmission of diseases....


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/21/politics/21charity.html

couldn't vote properly.. you would think NAACP would be one of those organizations...that they would want to stick around.

I don't think the odds of the "new replacement" being less radical are very good.

But it is my understanding that non-profit groups are required to be apolitical. So if an organization is "Liberal" or "Conservative" they are disqualified from not-for-profit exemptions. Donations are then regulated by election law, and not deductible.

It seems to me that if the NAACP admits they are politically opposite of the current administration, then they have already forfeited their non-profit status.

to the republicans in the last month prior to an election, have they forfeited their non-profits status?

that the establishment clause of the first amendment was sufficient grounds for denying any religious institution a more favorable tax status, than other businesses.

issues are another story. They have to provide a public service, too.

NAACP is being blatantly harassed by the cabal.