Pro-Death fake Catholics
Posted on 03/29/2007 4:52:55 PM PDT by wagglebee
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A leading pro-abortion group, Catholics for Free Choice, is attacking Priests for Life, a top pro-life organization, and claiming that it is violating its status as a nonprofit entity by posting videos of pro-life Sen. Sam Brownback on its web site.
Brownback is a Republican presidential candidate and has been endorsed personally by PFL director Father Frank Pavone but not by the organization as a whole.
The pro-abortion group, seen as heretical by faithful Catholics, filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service against Priests for Life over the videos. It alleges that the videos' appearance on the PFL web site constitutes an illegal campaign endorsement.
The videos feature a montage of the 2007 March for Life in Washington and of Brownback making remarks both there and at another pro-life event that day.
"The two videos clearly demonstrate PFL’s support for Brownback’s candidacy," CFFC said in a statement LifeNews.com obtained.
“The production, editing, and online hosting of these videos appears to represent a significant-and illegal-outlay of charitable funds," the group said in its letter to the IRS.
Pavone calls the latest CFFC complaint, the third time the pro-abortion group has attacked Priests for Life, "silly" and says it's meant to intimidate his group. Pavone said the video "is not an endorsement from Priests for Life" for Brownback but is meant to encourage pro-life advocates to look into the pro-life candidates seeking the presidency.
"We want people to understand you have to elect people who are going to protect life," Pavone told the Amarillo, Texas newspaper.
"As an organization, we have never been a partisan organization," Pavone explained. "We don't ally ourselves with any particular party. This falls into the category of issue advocacy, and the IRS makes a distinction between issue advocacy and candidate advocacy."
Pavone said CFFC officials don't understand the difference between electioneering and issues advocacy, two distinct activities that fall under two different guidelines.
The complaint against Priests for Life comes just days after the group threatened legal action against Catholics for a Free Choice. In a 15-page letter from its lawyers, Priests for Life outlined various complaints about a recent publication from CFFC, “Faithless Politics: Priests for Life Defies Constitution and Conscience.”
The publication makes various claims about supposedly illegal activities PFL has engaged in -- referring to educational efforts by the organization to encourage Catholics to vote pro-life.
Despite the CFFC allegations, Priests for Life has not endorsed any candidates or worked for any candidates in previous elections.
So now Father Pavone isn't allowed to have his own choice in the presidential election?!
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Counter-sue them back!
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"Catholics for Free Choice" is a notorious anti-Catholic front group.
Yep.
If you ask me, the whole distinction is artificial. How the establishment clause has been twisted into this is beyond comprehension.
That's nuts.
If they can be sued, I think Sojourners (www.sojo.net) can be sued for 501c3 violations too.
The establishment clause seems to mean whatever the left wants it to mean, for that matter so does the rest of the Constitution.
Hillary and OBama better stay out of them black churches!
Priests for Life would doubtless be happy to feature pro-life messages from any presidential candidate of either party. If Sen. Brownback is the only candidate speaking out against abortion, shame on all the others!
Pro-Death fake Catholics
Why beat around the bush--Excommunicate the fools.
Duncan Hunter wants a Constitutional amendment protecting life.
http://www.gohunter08.com/inner.asp?z=4
The headquarters for this fake group is the Planned Parenthood national offices in NY. "Catholics for a Free Choice" is a virulent anti-Catholic front group, dedicated to the destruction of the Catholic Church.
It would be like "Jews for a Free Choice" being run by, and headquartered in the Nazi Party headquarters in Berlin, 1938. With its leader being Hitler.
I say the Pope should bring down the hammer!
Better yet,excommunicate the whole lot of them.
Cathlics For A Free Choice is not a Catholic organization. No member of it is Catholic. Some, not all, were once Catholics. They are no longer. Any organization can call itself anything. Doesn't mean the name represents reality.
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