Recorded: IRS Agent Telling Non-Profit To Keep Faith To Themselves

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Town Hall:

Texas-based Pro-Life Revolution applied for 501©3 status with the IRS in January 2011--they received that status some 900 days later, on June 6, 2013 in a letter dated May 19. In the interim, they received letters asking for clarification and "more information," and a March 2012 phone call in which IRS agent Sherry Wan told Pro-Life Revolution President Ania Joseph how the IRS expects tax-exempt groups to act, think, and speak.

In a legally recorded call 14 months into an application process that was supposed to last no more than 270 days, Wan told Joseph:

You cannot force your religion or force your beliefs on somebody else…. You have to know your boundaries. You have to know your limits. You have to respect other people’s beliefs.

The agent went on to say she stresses neutrality on issues because she works for the IRS, and therefore, has "to stick with the law."