{"id":14490,"date":"2018-02-28T20:13:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T02:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=14490"},"modified":"2018-02-28T20:14:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T02:14:31","slug":"14490","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/02\/28\/14490\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloaking The Money Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The socially highly conservative organization\u00a0<i><b>Focus On The Family\u00a0<\/b><\/i>(<i><b>FotF<\/b><\/i>) has declared itself a <em>church<\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/post\/focus-on-the-family-has-declared-itself-a-church-avoiding-irs-disclosure-rules\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/post\/focus-on-the-family-has-declared-itself-a-church-avoiding-irs-disclosure-rules\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1519948873785000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEoaej0kNmVA4Xf9LLUiHELUfiQlw\">according\u00a0<\/a>to\u00a0<i><b>Right Wing Watch<\/b><\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"gmail_quote\"><p>Focus on the Family, the behemoth Religious Right organization founded by James Dobson, has declared itself to be a church, thereby avoiding a requirement that it file public tax documents, according to IRS records\u00a0and a document available on the organization\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>Focus on the Family filed as a non-church\u00a0501(c)(3) nonprofit as recently as<a href=\"http:\/\/media.focusonthefamily.com\/fotf\/pdf\/about-us\/financial-reports\/2015-focus-public-990.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/media.focusonthefamily.com\/fotf\/pdf\/about-us\/financial-reports\/2015-focus-public-990.pdf&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1519948873785000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFTP1u_z_dF9wAkH68LDzFVt3Lrjg\">\u00a0the 2014 fiscal year<\/a>, submitting to the IRS a publicly available Form 990 as most tax-exempt nonprofits are required to do.\u00a0But when the group posted\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/media.focusonthefamily.com\/fotf\/pdf\/about-us\/financial-reports\/2016-focus-990-public.pdf#_ga=2.223996061.720969616.1515553970-239606805.1515553970 Cmd+Click or tap to follow the link\" href=\"http:\/\/media.focusonthefamily.com\/fotf\/pdf\/about-us\/financial-reports\/2016-focus-990-public.pdf#_ga=2.223996061.720969616.1515553970-239606805.1515553970\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/media.focusonthefamily.com\/fotf\/pdf\/about-us\/financial-reports\/2016-focus-990-public.pdf%23_ga%3D2.223996061.720969616.1515553970-239606805.1515553970&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1519948873785000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFQUpM9qUB2jGPx4Ye1O35VSnyVQw\">a Form 990 for the 2015 fiscal year\u00a0<\/a>on its website\u2014dated October 26, 2017, and reporting a massive budget of $89 million\u2014it was emblazoned with the message \u201cNot required to file and not filed with the IRS. Not for public inspection.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i><b>Right Wing Watch\u00a0<\/b><\/i>admits to being puzzled. I&#8217;ve been thinking about this, and in the light of the upcoming mid-terms, I&#8217;m beginning to wonder if I&#8217;m seeing the light. Despite the Johnson Amendment, which bans churches from endorsing politicians, it still happens through small subterfuges such as &#8216;voter guides.&#8217; <em><strong>FotF<\/strong><\/em> may be looking at the coming mid-terms, gulping at the current polls, and deciding to batten down the hatches. If the Democrats are as successful as they are hoping,\u00a0<i><b>FotF\u00a0<\/b><\/i>will be losing a friendly Congress, if not an Administration, in about a year.<\/p>\n<p>If they&#8217;re planning to pour money into upcoming elections, especially the 2020 Presidential election, this may be their way of obscuring some of the money trying to influence voters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The socially highly conservative organization\u00a0Focus On The Family\u00a0(FotF) has declared itself a church,\u00a0according\u00a0to\u00a0Right Wing Watch: Focus on the Family, the behemoth Religious Right organization founded by James Dobson, has declared itself to be a church, thereby avoiding a requirement that it file public tax documents, according to IRS records\u00a0and a \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/02\/28\/14490\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14490"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14492,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14490\/revisions\/14492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}