Abortion rights group accuses archdiocese with violating tax-exempt status

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CHERYL WITTENAUER
Associated Press


ST. LOUIS - A Catholic abortion rights group is asking the Internal Revenue Service to revoke the tax-exempt status of the Archdiocese of St. Louis and halt any further attempts by the archdiocese to influence the Nov. 2 election.

The Washington-based Catholics for a Free Choice filed a complaint with the IRS on Tuesday, saying the archdiocese violated its status as a public charity under federal tax laws.

The complaint says St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke has "explicitly urged Catholics" to vote against certain candidates and has "clearly crossed the line into political intervention." Officials at the archdiocese declined to comment.

The complaint takes issue with Burke's Oct. 1 pastoral letter, published in the archdiocesan newspaper, "The St. Louis Review," which forbids Catholics to vote for candidates who support abortion rights, euthanasia, reproductive cloning, gay marriage and embryonic stem cell research - what Burke calls the five "intrinsic evils."

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YEAH!

[Massacure]

1. Take one down, and you'll scare the others into line.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

3. That's what I'm hoping

As my other half likes to say, "Kill one, warn one hundred."

[Larkspur]

2. About time! Good job Catholic abortion rights group!

[gatlingforme]

4. about time n/t

[mom cat]

5. Amen!

[deadparrot]

6. Burke's my archbishop.

Hate. him.

With a passion.