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To: average joe who wrote (10322)	11/28/2010 1:16:24 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 69300

"86 evangelical Christian leaders have decided to back a major initiative to fight global warming, saying "millions of people could die in this century because of climate change, most of them our poorest global neighbors." Among signers of the statement, which will be released in Washington on Wednesday, are the presidents of 39 evangelical colleges, leaders of aid groups and churches, like the Salvation Army, and pastors of megachurches, including Rick Warren, author of the best seller "The Purpose-Driven Life." If they didn't the human secularists would take away their tax exempt status

To: average joe who wrote (10322)	11/28/2010 1:26:00 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

It Begins… IRS Targets Jewish Groups That Support Existence of Israel HSers at work from Gateway Pundit by Jim Hoft (from LindyBill) Do you remember when Jesse Jackson said that under Obama Jews would lose all of their clout? …He was right. The IRS is now asking Jewish organizations if they support the existence of Israel. (Politico Document) Unbelievable. The IRS is targeting American Jewish groups that support the existence of Israel. Ben Smith at The Politico reported: A Pennsylvania Jewish group that has claimed the Internal Revenue Service is targeting pro-Israel groups introduced in federal court today a letter from an IRS agent to another, unnamed organization that tax experts said was likely outside the usual or appropriate scope of an IRS inquiry. "Does your organization support the existence of the land of Israel?" IRS agent Tracy Dornette wrote the organization, according to this week's court filing, as part of its consideration of the organizations application for tax exempt status. "Describe your organization's religious belief sytem toward the land of Israel." The document emerged in the course of a lawsuit filed in August by Z Street, a hawkish group that casts itself as the Zionist answer to the liberal J Street. Z Street claims that a different IRS agent reviewing its application for tax exempt status said the agency is "carefully scrutinizing organizations that are in any way connected with Israel" and that "a special unit" is determining whether its activities "contradict the Administration's public policies.'" The IRS can deny tax exempt status to groups that work against "established public policy," a precedent established in its denial of a tax exemption to Bob Jones University over racial discrimination, and Z Street is suggesting that the IRS has begun applying some such policy to pro-Israel groups. gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com