From Band of Thebes:
Last night ten thousand people gathered outside the Upper West Side’s Mormon temple to protest LDS funding of Prop 8, then marched down Broadway to Columbus Circle. It is illegal for tax-exempt religious organizations to engage in politics. And yet.
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Anti Theocracy Division
So, last Tuesday we handed the neo-cons in Washington their hats. Now it’s time stand up to religious bullies who want to impose their metaphysical beliefs through law on those of us who don’t share them. The most recent example of that is Prop 8 in California, the measure that removed a constitutional right from one group of people, gays. The measure was funded largely by Christian religious groups. The biggest contributor, in both money and personnel, was the Mormon Church. The LDS provided more than 25% of the funding for Prop. 8 in clear and unambiguous violation of laws forbidding tax-exempt religious groups from interferring in the election process.
So, let’s fire a shot across their bow in a way that gets their attention. Click on this link, grab the IRS form that results and send it to the IRS. They can ignore one or two complaint forms, but can they ignore thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions? Let’s find out.
Of course you can just shrug it off with a, “It don’t affect me.” Which may be true… this time around.
Click: http://www.centerlb.org/links/prop-8/Action_Against_LDS_Church.pdf
for the Form
Then :
Filing a Complaint
A referral of an exempt organization may be made by submitting Form 13909, Tax-Exempt Organization Complaint (Referral) Form, downloadable from IRS.gov.
Form 13909 and any supporting documentation may be submitted in a variety of ways. They can be sent via:
Mail to IRS EO Classification, Mail Code 4910DAL, 1100 Commerce St., Dallas, TX 75242-1198,
Fax to 214-413-5415, or Email to eoclass@irs.gov.
To be clear a church may not campaign for a candidate but an issue is allowed.