LA Voice: “Well, it’s official.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has bestowed upon the right-wing lobbyist group the Family Research Council (FRC) the official status of a CHURCH and Tony Perkins (not the late actor, but the former Louisiana legislator from Greenwell Springs) as its religious leader, or pastor, as it were.
A church.
The agenda of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who says it is a “MISCONCEPTION” that the founding fathers wanted the separation of church and state, notwithstanding, there can be no earthly way to see FRC in any light other than as an association established – and functioning – as a lobbying organization.
That FRC actively lobbies against abortion and LGBTQ rights and in favor of exemptions to civil rights laws should prohibit it from either being designated as a church or in participating in partisan politics.
And it doesn’t – or shouldn’t – matter which side of a given issue it advocates. If it promoted abortion or LGBTQ rights or took a hard line on the enforcement of civil rights laws across the board, it still should not be designated as a church.
To do so makes a mockery of the Constitution.”