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Accusations and counter-complaints flew Wednesday between Liberty University and a religious-diversity group in Washington, D.C.
Americans United for Separation of Church and State said it would ask the Internal Revenue Service to investigate Liberty University’s tax-exempt status because the school revoked its recognition of the College Democrats club.
Liberty Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. said the university would, in turn, ask the IRS to investigate the complainers, whom he called “a Democratic front group.”
“We are planning to file a complaint against AU,” Falwell said, because the group has the same tax-exempt status Liberty holds under IRS code 501(c)(3) for religious and educational groups, Falwell said.
“AU seems to only file complaints against other 501(c)(3) groups that don’t support AU’s liberal agenda,” Falwell said.
“We have noticed a pattern of them favoring the Democratic Party over the years and we have documented that pattern,” Falwell said.
Americans United for Separation of Church and State said in a letter to the IRS that “Liberty University may have violated federal tax law in denying recognition to this club while extending it to a Republican organization.”
Liberty’s revocation of the Democratic club’s status means it won’t receive funding from the university that apparently will be available to the College Republican club, the church-separation group said.
Because campus political clubs work on behalf of candidates, “the university’s decision offers Republican candidates a type of in-kind contribution that is not being made available to Democratic candidates,” said the AU letter, which was signed by Barry Lynn, its executive director.
“By banning a Democratic club while permitting a Republican club to exist and offering funding to the latter but not the former, university officials appear to be operating in violation of federal tax law,” Lynn’s letter said.
Falwell has repeatedly said the College Democrats club was not banned. It is permitted to exist as an unofficial club and its members can meet in unused classrooms, the student center or cafeteria, Falwell said.
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no god but god
“Barry Lynn has quite possibly painted himself in a corner.“
What corner would that be?
Moreover, if Junior’s such a good chess player, he wouldn’t have put his bishop in threat in the first place.
Barry Lynn is a great American, and the AU is a non-partisan, non-sectarian organization. Without watchdog groups like the AU, our Nation would likely fall into theocratic decay, (if it hasn’t already). Again, I urge all citizens who care about protecting the Constitution to contact au.org, & join your local Chapter.
My comment was to Wakefield as he said Barry Lynn’s degree was mail order. I should have said Senior. I knew Junior wasn’t a pastor.
So what if the agenda of BU is liberal? It’s NOT a mail order degre. That was the point of my comment.
Brigham Young University has neither a College Republican or Remocratic club. They are, at least fair.
This comment is directed to Martha:
Boston University’s School of Theology, like Harvard and Princeton, has a liberal agenda.
Jerry Falwell did graduate from Baptist Bible College in Missouri. However, Jerry Falwell, Jr. graduated from Liberty University and also has a law degree from the University of Virginia. Barry Lynn has quite possibly painted himself in a corner.
FYI :
http://bluevablog.blogspot.com/2009/05/liberty-university-may-have-violated.html#comments
Wakefield,
Barry Lynn graduated from Boston University’s School of theology. Jerry Falwell got his degree from Baptist Bible College in Springfield, Missouri.
Barry Lynn also has a law degree.
YOU GO JERRY JUNIOR!!!!!!!!!!!!
Barry Lynn and his mail order bible diploma is nothing more than a democrat socialist front man. We have all been waiting for you to pick up your fathers mantle and I must say, it can’t come soon enough!
Prayers for you and anyone that stands up to PresBO and his socialist agenda. We need all good men to stand up at this time in our history.
Poverty has been created by the economic and social system that we have designed for the world. It is the institutions that we have built and feel so proud of, which created poverty them. - Muhammad Yunus
In case you haven’t noticed, God’s got his hand’s full, kingkong.
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