Posted on 06/12/2013 8:28:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Except when we want to know the content of your prayers.
A pro-life legal group, Alliance Defending Freedom, released audio today of a 2012 phone call between an IRS agent and the head of a Texas pregnancy counseling group. During the phone call, IRS agent Sherry Wan is heard lecturing Ania Joseph about how she can't have a tax exemption and also push her religious beliefs-- a bit of advice that would be quite interesting to every church in America.
Via The Blaze, here's part of the exchange. The group in question, Pro-Life Revolution, waited more than two years for its tax exemption:
Wan lectured Joseph on the group's mission and told the pro-life leader that she needs to "know [her] boundaries."
"You cannot force your religion or force your beliefs on somebody else," Wan told Joseph in a nearly 10-minute phone conversation.
"I just have a question, Sherry," Joseph interjected. "Is handing a brochure to somebody forcing somebody to do something they don't want to do?"
Wan explained her position.
"You convince them. But when you take a lot of action, [unintelligible] other people. For example, when you, you know, go to, you know, the abortion clinic, and you found them [unintelligible], we don't want, you know, to come against them," the agent said.
"You can't take all kinds of confrontation activities and also put something on a website and ask people to take action against the abortion clinic. That's not really educational."
I'm beginning to think that the IRS gets these people when they are in school. They scour playgrounds across America looking for the meanest, most aggressive bullies they can find. They then whisk them off to a secret training facility and, when they're good and ready, they loose them on the unsuspecting American public.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“... one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
People used to respect those words.
Seems like ancient history now.
they never were.
Violates “free exercise” of religion. Period.
Why are we as Americans standing still for this bullying by the federal government? We are paying them and they treat us like dirt.
RE: Why are we as Americans standing still for this bullying by the federal government? We are paying them and they treat us like dirt.
The problem is THE OTHER HALF who VOTE for such a state of affairs. They don’t mind those paying taxes being bullied as long as they get their goodies.
Also, there are too many apathetic Americans who aren’t even aware that their country is slowly slipping away...
I just heard the call on Glenn Beck’s radio show. You can barely understand the IRS worker because of her foreign accent. WTH? Foreigners (she may be American but judging by the accent, she’s new) are working at the IRS telling Americans they can’t proselytize!
RE: Foreigners (she may be American but judging by the accent, she’s new) are working at the IRS telling Americans they can’t proselytize!
The IRS seems to like people like these... those who have EXPERIENCE with Police states.
May explain why she doesn't recognize that her “Keep your religion to yourself” comment, mirrors Nazi philosophy.
“Ania”??
Amish?
WHAT IS NOT MENTIONED>>>>
This IRS agent has a very strong (and incomprehensible) foreign accent. In other words he/she is not a real American. Did I say this? Yes I did!!!
WTF is the IRS hiring today? Only affirmative action babies?
IRS agents starting pay is around $50K. How the hell come we can’t find an American Citizen, or at least someone who can speak understandable English, to take this job? Are there any Americans that need work or is it just Illegal Aliens and Immigrants that are allowed to work for the Federal Government?
It sounded as thought they have outsourced work to a call center in India.
Seems like Indian accent but the IRS agents name seems to be Chinese.
I PUKE when I hear someone call themselves “Civil Servants”! What a JOKE....they are the SLAVEMASTERS!!
You’re wrong.....HALF of AMericans PAY NO FEDERAL TAXES!!! What the HELL do THEY CARE if we are Harrassed by the IRS....they GET OUR CHECKS and FREE CHEESE and HOUSING sent to them that WE PAY FOR!!
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