Thread: Epicospal Church joins holidypostcard campaign for im reform

Episcopal Church joins holiday postcard campaign for immigration reform
The Episcopal News Service, November 16, 2009
http://www.episcopal-life.org/79901_116875_ENG_HTM.htm

The Episcopal Church is joining the Interfaith Immigration Coalition postcard campaign, aimed at sending a holiday message to members of the U.S. Congress.

The message: 'Help keep immigrant families together by supporting comprehensive immigration reform now.'

An action alert from the Episcopal Public Policy Network (EPPN) said its goal is to collect 10,000 signed postcards 'and send a strong message to Congress that people of faith want to see action on comprehensive immigration reform.'

'Your participation in the Holiday Postcard campaign will help us remind Members of Congress that our broken immigration system is hurting immigrant families, and needs to be reformed now,' the alert said. 'It can also bring the important work of doing justice into the weekly worship life of your community.'

Postcards can be downloaded here for printing. The alert urges people to fill out three cards, one for each of their two U.S. Senators, and one for their Representative. A map of congressional districts can be found here.

The Episcopal Church's stance on immigration reform is guided by the policies set out in Resolution B006 passed during the most recent meeting of General Convention in July. B006 continues the church's long-standing call for comprehensive immigration reform and urges an end to federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) strategies that break up immigrant families.

The EPPN's alert suggests ways to organize the postcard campaign in local congregations and then ensure that the cards get to the attention of federal lawmakers. The network asks that the cards not be sent individually to members of Congress because EPPN and the interfaith coalition plan to deliver them in early January.

'Our goal is to send a strong, unified message of support for immigrant families and for immigration reform, and delivering the postcards in-person, within a tight time-frame, helps us do that,' the alert said.

This is greatly disturbing.

There were rumors a while back that there was a separation of church and state. Apparently they were just rumors.

There's a US tax law that prohibits 501 C 3 tax-exempt organizations from lobbying, influencing legislation and impacting public policy, too.

Perhaps that's just a rumor, also.

Shut these organizations down. Jerk their 501 C 3 tax exempt status and if they want to be political action committees and "remind our Congress" of something, then they need to reform their "church" under a 501 C 4 organization as a legal political action committee and register their damn outfit with the Federal Elections Commission, just like ALIPAC has to do.

Then we'll see how much money raise when their "contributors" can't deduct their donation on their federal income tax return.

Pass the FairTax, which doesn't jerk their 501 C 3 status, but it makes their 501 C 3 status ... MOOT.

Wake Up America.

www.fairtax.org

Originally Posted by Judy

There's a US tax law that prohibits 501 C 3 tax-exempt organizations from lobbying, influencing legislation and impacting public policy, too.

Perhaps that's just a rumor, also.

Shut these organizations down. Jerk their 501 C 3 tax exempt status and if they want to be political action committees and "remind our Congress" of something, then they need to reform their "church" under a 501 C 4 organization as a legal political action committee and register their damn outfit with the Federal Elections Commission, just like ALIPAC has to do.

Then we'll see how much money raise when their "contributors" can't deduct their donation on their federal income tax return.

Pass the FairTax, which doesn't jerk their 501 C 3 status, but it makes their 501 C 3 status ... MOOT.

Wake Up America.

www.fairtax.org

They all need to get their tax exempt status yanked!! But when you have all of the Presidents appointees that cheat on taxes and nothing happens, well then I would have to say that it doesn't matter and nothing will be done. They follow the laws when they feel like it.

Originally Posted by 93camaro

Originally Posted by Judy

There's a US tax law that prohibits 501 C 3 tax-exempt organizations from lobbying, influencing legislation and impacting public policy, too.

Perhaps that's just a rumor, also.

Shut these organizations down. Jerk their 501 C 3 tax exempt status and if they want to be political action committees and "remind our Congress" of something, then they need to reform their "church" under a 501 C 4 organization as a legal political action committee and register their damn outfit with the Federal Elections Commission, just like ALIPAC has to do.

Then we'll see how much money raise when their "contributors" can't deduct their donation on their federal income tax return.

Pass the FairTax, which doesn't jerk their 501 C 3 status, but it makes their 501 C 3 status ... MOOT.

Wake Up America.

www.fairtax.org

They all need to get their tax exempt status yanked!! But when you have all of the Presidents appointees that cheat on taxes and nothing happens, well then I would have to say that it doesn't matter and nothing will be done. They follow the laws when they feel like it.

Yep ... so we need to keep the pressure on them, and then throw the bums out in 2010 and 2012 so we can stop this "not-for-profit charity" scamming along with a few other things run amok in our country.