{"id":7179,"date":"2010-01-23T10:34:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T15:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7179"},"modified":"2010-01-23T10:34:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T15:34:12","slug":"calgary-church-feeds-150000-people-a-year-loses-charitable-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/calgary-church-feeds-150000-people-a-year-loses-charitable-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary church feeds 150,000 people a year. Loses charitable status."},"content":{"rendered":"

Because, even though it happily feeds anyone in need<\/a> \u2013 including homosexuals \u2013 it has the gall to disagree with abortion and homosexual activity:<\/p>\n

Calgary church loses charitable status for its “non-partisan political activities”.<\/p>\n

A Calgary church has lost its charitable status in part because it spends too much of its time advocating on social issues such as abortion and marriage.<\/p>\n

In October, the Kings Glory Fellowship Association, a non-denominational Protestant group, was told by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) that for several reasons, including a lack of clarity on how it spends it money, they could no longer issue charitable receipts.<\/p>\n

But the letter highlighted that the group spent more than 10% of its time on \u201cnon-partisan political activities and therefore strayed into activities \u201coutside its stated purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe note … the members of the Board of Directors espouse strong negative vies about sensitive and controversial issues, which may also be viewed as political, such as abortion, homosexuality, divorce, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n

The CRA allows charitable organizations to spend some time on \u201cpolitical activities,\u201d but the cutoff is 10%. A spokesman for the CRA was not immediately available to explain how the percentage of time a group spends on non-charitable works is determined.<\/p>\n

Artur Pawlowski, the head of the Kings Glory Fellowship, said his group \u201chas nothing to do with politics and we do not advertise for a party or a candidate. The only political activity you can connect us to is defending our right to speak.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Pawlowski said the primary mission of his church is to feed homeless people. He said this group supplies food for about 150,000 a year, mainly to people \u201cthat no one else wants to deal with.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we feed people we don\u2019t care whether they are homosexuals or have had abortions or been divorced but we preach what the Bible says about those issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the financial issues are just a \u201csmoke screen\u201d and the real agenda is to \u201ckeep us quiet.\u201d Mr. Pawlowski also noted that his church has never been audited by the CRA.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I do hope that Archbishop Fred Hiltz leaps to the defence of Artur Pawlowski, since one of the Famous Five marks of mission is to respond to human need by loving service<\/a>. <\/em> Fred, are you there? You’re breaking up, Fred.<\/p>\n

I wonder why the Anglican church of Canada still has tax free status, since it is almost exclusively a politically motivated organisation that is constantly petitioning the government over one thing<\/a> or another<\/a> while actually doing almost nothing useful itself.<\/p>\n

The Kings Glory Fellowship Association feeds 150,000 people a year, espouses politically incorrect causes and loses its tax exempt status as a charity.<\/p>\n

The Anglican Church of Canada, a national organisation, by comparison feeds almost no-one, peddles politically correct banalities and, mysteriously, still has charitable status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because, even though it happily feeds anyone in need \u2013 including homosexuals \u2013 it has the gall to disagree with abortion and homosexual activity: Calgary church loses charitable status for its “non-partisan political activities”. A Calgary church has lost its … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,254],"tags":[2030,2225],"class_list":["post-7179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican","category-political-correctness","tag-anglican","tag-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}