CA: Transgender Student Files Complaint Against Fringe Anti-LGBT Group for Opera

[Amelia Pond]

CA: Transgender Student Files Complaint Against Fringe Anti-LGBT Group for Operating Illegally
Transgender Law Center, October 2, 2013

Manteca high school student Ashton Lee and his mother, Catherine Lee, filed a complaint this week with the California Attorney General's Office asking for an investigation into an anti-LGBT group that has been operating illegally and claiming to be a tax-exempt organization to receive donations, when in fact its tax-exempt status was revoked by the Internal Revenue Service months ago.

The Capitol Resource Institute (CRI) had its tax-exempt status revoked in February by the IRS after failing to provide required financial information for three consecutive years. It is also listed on the California Attorney General site as delinquent in required filings. Despite this, the group has continued to say they are tax-exempt in order to solicit contributions to continue its work, including challenging California's new School Success and Opportunity Act (Assembly Bill 1266), which ensures that transgender students have the same opportunities to be successful as their peers.

[Amy The Bookworm]

CA: Transgender Student Files Complaint Against Fringe Anti-LGBT Group for Operating Illegally
Transgender Law Center, October 2, 2013

Manteca high school student Ashton Lee and his mother, Catherine Lee, filed a complaint this week with the California Attorney General's Office asking for an investigation into an anti-LGBT group that has been operating illegally and claiming to be a tax-exempt organization to receive donations, when in fact its tax-exempt status was revoked by the Internal Revenue Service months ago.

The Capitol Resource Institute (CRI) had its tax-exempt status revoked in February by the IRS after failing to provide required financial information for three consecutive years. It is also listed on the California Attorney General site as delinquent in required filings. Despite this, the group has continued to say they are tax-exempt in order to solicit contributions to continue its work, including challenging California's new School Success and Opportunity Act (Assembly Bill 1266), which ensures that transgender students have the same opportunities to be successful as their peers.

It really bothers me that churches that tell their members how they should vote, and organizations such as this one that this article talks about (and organizations like the West Borrow Baptist Church) are organizations that are all tax exempt. I've never understood why the United States allows this in the first place.

... So it's really screwy when such an organization loses that status and then tries to claim it to get donations.