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The Shaming Projectdoes the violence of "Left Behind: Eternal Forces" bother you ? If so, what can you do ? Well, to begin with you can email Jonathan Hutson's stories to people you know. That will help to bring more public scrutiny of the game. Public shaming really works ! Just click on the "email" icon and link at the top or bottom of the story and you'll be taken to a form that will allow you email the first story, The Purpose Driven Life Takers or the latest installment without leaving this site. Thanks.
Liberty Counsel tries to SLAPP Americans United |
| Fri Jun 05, 2009 at 04:03:18 PM EST |  print story | |
In what can charitably be described as an act of desperation, Liberty Counsel is asking the IRS to investigate Americans United's tax-exempt status. This comes only days after AU asked the IRS to investigate Liberty's tax-exempt status for withdrawing recognition from its College Democrats chapter while allowing the College Republicans to continue to exist.
Read the compliant here. There's a reason that something like this hasn't been tried before. This is nothing more than a thinly-disguised SLAPP action, and one can only hope the IRS recognizes it as such. |
Liberty may have been within its rights as a private institution to yank official recognition from the College Dems. It's been widely reported that the group's been banned--but in fact, it can still meet on campus and is currently working with the school to regain recognition. It's just not eligible to use Liberty's name or get funding from the school. However, it's more than valid to question the fairness of recognizing the College Republicans while not recognizing the College Dems.
And yet, Liberty considers asking such questions to be undergirded with "malicious intent" (to quote the Liberty Counsel complaint)? And yet, Liberty believes that by doing so, AU is a Democratic front? The mind reels.
To my knowledge, such a tactic has never even been attempted before since the religious right became a player in the 1980s. Not by Focus on the Family, not by the Christian Coalition, not by the American Family Association. Not even by Liberty Counsel's linear predecessor, Moral Majority. The velocity with this complaint should be rejected ought to create quite the breeze.
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