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While IRS Made Conservative Groups Wait, Satanic Club Granted Tax-Exempt Status in 10 Days

The Washington Free Beacon ^ | 03/22/17 | Ali Meyer

Posted on by Enlightened1

The Internal Revenue Service made Tea Party and conservative groups wait years for tax-exempt status, but granted exempt status to an "After School Satan Club" in just 10 days, according to the watchdog group Judicial Watch.

Charitable, religious, and educational organizations can receive tax-exempt status if they follow IRS guidelines for nonprofits. The IRS for years prevented some conservative groups from obtaining this status, targeting them using key words such as "tea-party" and "patriot." Many of these groups had to wait up to seven years to receive tax-exempt status, while others were denied.

"In the meantime, leftist groups like the Satan club got fast tracked," Judicial Watch said. "The Satanic cult applied for tax-exempt status on October 21, 2014, and received it on October 31, 2014."

The nonprofit Reason Alliance was behind the after-school club. It operates in Washington State as the Satanic Temple of Seattle.

"Children ages 5-12 will develop basic critical reasoning, character qualities, problem solving and creative expression, according to the Satanic Temple filings included in the documents," Judicial Watch explains. "The club logo is a pencil with devil's horns."

A number of secular or atheist groups, including the Reason Alliance, refer to themselves as "satanist" in order to shock religious communities. The group's website states it is committed to "secular, humanistic values" and opposes tax exemption for religious organizations.

No one signed up for the satanic club in the two weeks after its creation. The IRS still allowed this group to operate as a nonprofit in taxpayer-funded elementary schools, the watchdog group noted.



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To: Enlightened1

Urban institute. Irs. Soros

jaime gorelick

ivanka trump

less than 6 degrees of separation American thinker warned of the connection



To: brucedickinson

What ARE you saying? Liberals are violent - we’re NOT... being evil to fight evil is a trap.



by 4 posted onby GOPJ (Elections no longer matter. We have lost the country to the appointed. - freeperRepRivFarm)

To: Enlightened1

"The nonprofit Reason Alliance was behind the after-school club." And who is behind the Reason Alliance?



by 5 posted onby hold_muh_bier (and watch this: 8 years of a Trump Presidency followed by 8 years of a Pence Presidency!)

To: Enlightened1

They are a fraud. These “Satanists” are atheists and don’t believe in God but they do believe in mocking Christians. They are hate groups and the only religious belief they have is ATHEISM and they are SUPREMACIST and EVANGELICAL in that ideology.



To: Enlightened1

“Welcome to the United States.” So called.



To: hold_muh_bier

Satanists are unreasonable.



To: GOPJ

chemotherapy is not a trap.



To: hold_muh_bier

The IRS is totally corrupt and should be shut down....everyone moved or fired.



To: Enlightened1

They are hand maidens of the devil, so...



by 11 posted onby unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)

To: Enlightened1

Just in case there was any question as to who was really The Boss during the obama regime...



To: Enlightened1





GOT YOU NOW!!!!



To: Enlightened1

Obama’s taxpayer funded Gestapo had to move fast because Democrats had to please the Satan worshipers on Election Day.



To: Enlightened1

I’ve seen no meaningful explanations as to why its taking Trump so long to replace some of these people. Many don’ require Senate Confirmation.



by 15 posted onby G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)

To: Enlightened1

The girls who join the after school Satan Club are gonna be SO popular! Even easier than the lib chix with the piercings and tattoos!



by 16 posted onby JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)

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