IRS Goes After God and the Family

Dr. James Dobson was a guest on the Hannity show Friday night to talk about the treatment his Christian, pro-family, group, Family Talk Action got from the IRS when they applied for a 501(c)(4), a process he said “went on and on and on” for 19 months.

‘Trampling the Constitution’

Dr. James Dobson, a well-known Christian author and radio host, has now come forward to divulge an unpalatable alleged run-in with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The purported saga unfolded when he decided to create a 501(c)(4) for his radio ministry, Family Talk. TheBlaze interviewed his son, Ryan Dobson, about the 18-month debacle.

According to Dobson, the organization submitted its application to the IRS on September 2, 2011. Despite having what he called a “good attorney” who has been working in the industry for 26 years and who has never had an application denied, the IRS purportedly made the process immensely difficult — at one point threatening to refuse approval.

The problems began months after the application was first submitted. While Dobson said that Family Talk didn’t hear back from the government for six months, once contact was made, the IRS allegedly had some odd curiosities.

“There were all kids of questions — ones we’ve never seen before,” Ryan told TheBlaze, noting that the government institution asked for their political opinions and for copies of past broadcasts and transcripts.

Once this latter information was supplied, again, Dobson said that no contact was made for yet another six months. Finally, the attorney for Family Talk contacted the IRS, asking for additional information. Again, silence. It wasn’t until March 19 of this year –18 months after the time-frame of the original application — that the IRS appeared ready to respond.

“We inquired about our status and [the agent] said she was probably going to recommend that our application not be [granted],” Dobson told TheBlaze. “She said we were political and we had criticized President Obama … and she said we did it when he was a candidate.”

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‘Very Frightening’: Prominent Catholic Prof. Claims IRS Audited Her After Speaking Out Against Obama

In the midst of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) scandal, individuals and groups, alike, are continuing to come forward with ever-startling allegations. On Wednesday, Dr. Anne Hendershott, a devout Catholic and a noted sociologist, professor and author, exclusively told TheBlaze that she believes she may have been one of the IRS’s targets.

According to Hendershott, the IRS audited her in 2010 and demanded to know who was paying her and “what their politics were.”

It all started with a phone call she received at her home in May of that year — a call during which Hendershott was told she would be audited. A letter that followed on May 19, 2010 solidified the IRS’s request to meet her in person two months alter in July. While IRS investigations are certainly not uncommon occurrences, the professor believes that the situation surrounding hers was more-than-curious.

“The IRS calls my house and says … ‘I just wanted to let you know that we’re going to be auditing your business’ and I said ‘My businesses?’ and he said, ‘You know the expenses you take off for writing,” the academic recalls.

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Judge goes off deep end to shut up Christians

A federal judge has issued a startling ruling that suppressing Christian speech is allowed when Muslims threaten violence because they’re upset over the message.

The ruling from Judge Patrick J. Duggan in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan granted Wayne County’s motion for summary judgment of a lawsuit brought by a team of Christians who were badgered, bullied and targeted with garbage thrown by Muslims who disliked their message at last year’s Arab Fest in Dearborn, Mich.

Officials with American Freedom Law Center, who have been arguing the case on behalf of the Christians, also said the judge denied AFLC’s motion requesting that the court issue an order preventing the Wayne County Sheriff and his deputies from restricting the Christian evangelists from displaying their banners and signs on the public sidewalks outside of this year’s Arab Festival.

It is scheduled for June.

In his ruling, Duggan said, “The court finds that the actual demonstration of violence here provided the requisite justification for [the Wayne County sheriffs'] intervention, even if the officials acted as they did because of the effect the speech had on the crowd.”

The case had been filed by the AFLC after several Christian evangelists were violently assaulted by a hostile Muslim mob while preaching at the festival last year in Dearborn, which has the largest concentration of Muslims in the United States.

The lawsuit, which will be appealed to a higher court, alleged the county, sheriff and deputies refused to protect the Christians from the attack, and they threatened to arrest the Christians for disorderly conduct if they did not halt their speech activity and immediately leave the festival area.

Robert Muise, AFLC co-founder and senior counsel, said, “The First Amendment was dealt a severe blow today as a result of this ruling. Indeed, this ruling effectively empowers Muslims to silence Christian speech that they deem offensive by engaging in violence. And pursuant to this ruling, the Christian speakers are now subject to arrest for engaging in disorderly conduct on account of the Muslim hecklers’ violent response to their speech. In short, this ruling turns the First Amendment on its head.”

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Military surrenders in war on Christian evangelism

The Pentagon announced today that military members who want to talk about their faith with other members have every right to do so, backtracking on a previous warning against “proselytizing,” which it said could be subject to court-martial.

The statement from Lt. Cmdr. Nathan Christensen said the Department of Defense “never and will never single out a particular religious group for persecution or prosecution.”

The Pentagon walked back its statement earlier this week after the Alliance Defending Freedom filed a Freedom of Information Act request for records relating to Pentagon statements on the issue.

“Members of our military should not be denied the very freedoms they fight to defend. Freedom of religion and speech are paramount among those freedoms,” said ADF Legal Counsel Joseph La Rue. “We appreciate the Pentagon’s clarification, but little or no evidence exists of coercive proselytization in the military, so we are still troubled over what motivated the original comments.

The Pentagon’s Christensen said in the statement today that the Department of Defense department “makes reasonable accommodations for all religions and celebrates the religious diversity of our service members.”

“Service members can share their faith (evangelize), but must not force unwanted, intrusive attempts to convert others of any faith or no faith to one’s beliefs (proselytization),” he said.

Christensen said that if a service member “harasses another member on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, or disability, then the commander takes action based on the gravity of the occurrence.”

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MARYLAND: Terror-linked CAIR demands ‘school holiday equality’ for Muslim holidays

The Maryland chapter of the Council on Anti-American Islamic Relations (CAIR-MD) today announced the official launch of its “Equality for Eid” (E4E) campaign, a Muslim community-based initiative led by CAIR-MD seeking Montgomery County Public School closing for “Eid” holidays.

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Half-Naked College Student Dresses Up as the Pope, Gives Out Condoms

Catholic officials in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, are discontented after an annual art school parade at Carnegie Mellon University included a female student who was dressed like the pope. But that isn’t the extent of her controversial actions.

The young woman was apparently also naked from the waist down, while handing out condoms to her peers. And, according to KDKA-TV, she reportedly shaved her pubic hair into the shape of a cross.

While the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh is calling for the university to take action, some feel that faith leaders are overreacting. One student told the outlet that the student’s actions were rooted “in good fun” and that were were essentially harmless.

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