Trump’s IRS Hands Churches More Tax-free Political Power. What’s next? Watch The Handmaid’s Tale.

I.R.S. Says Churches Can Endorse Candidates From the Pulpit

"The I.R.S. said in a court filing that churches and other houses of worship can endorse political candidates to their congregations, carving out an exemption in a decades-old ban on political activity by tax-exempt nonprofits." - NY Times

A massive carve-out has just been granted to the ban on tax-exempt nonprofits engaging in political endorsements. - Daily Beast

All the Chilling Parallels Between 'The Handmaid's Tale' and Life for Women in Trump's America - Marie Claire

Connect the dots for yourself with this relationship map.

• How Opus Dei Conquered D.C. - See how much sway the mysterious right-wing Catholic group has. - Intelligencer
• Stunning Report Exposes Project 2025’s Ties to Radical Christian Group. Kevin Roberts, leader of the Heritage Foundation, is closely linked to Opus Dei. - The New Republic
• Leonard Leo, architect of conservative Supreme Court, takes on wider culture - National Catholic Reporter
• Catholic Church can move unlimited funds TAX-FREE to think-tanks, media, voter suppression efforts - Church And State

The Church works tax free to push for a national abortion ban. Is that right?

Under the guise of “freedom of religion" - the Church has roughly 5,000 prelates around the world who are heads of dioceses. Each one has the capacity for hidden bank accounts, investments, slush funds named for some phony charity or foundation. Under the guise of “freedom of religion,” those prelates in industrialized countries operate with no governmental oversight.

They pay no taxes and provide a tax deduction to their donors - In the U.S., there are 195 dioceses. Additionally, the bishops control around 40,000 organizations, agencies and foundations each with a 501(c)(3) tax code. That means they pay no taxes, provide a tax deduction to their donors, and are have no legal obligation to produce financial statements showing truthfully where their money comes from or where it goes.

Catholic Church can move unlimited funds – foreign and domestic – to think-tanks, media, voter suppression efforts - While Americans deservedly worry over the Koch brothers, Citizens United, “dark money” SuperPACs, et al, the Catholic Church can move unlimited funds – foreign and domestic – to think-tanks, media, voter suppression efforts, every means available to the plutocracy to subvert our democracy. Which was another compelling reason for the intentional creation of the Religious Right by neoconservatives in the late 1970s. - Church And State

Project 2025 : Where men rule and women are Handmaids

The Handmaid's Tale is fictional story about women forced into sexual slavery after a group of white Christian Nationalist men take over the U.S. government and disenfranchise women. The Handmaid's Tale is supposed to be fictional, but with women being jailed for abortions in Texas and abortions being banned in Arizona, it is coming very close to reality. Compare the laws in Handmaid's Tale with what is happening in MAGA led states, and what might happen next in the Republican War on Women.

The Handmaid's Tale

"The Handmaid's Tale is the story of Offred, a woman forced into sexual slavery after a group of ultra conservative, extremely religious white men take over the U.S. government and disenfranchise women, non-Protestants, gay people, and people of color. Offred is now a so-called handmaid required to sleep with Fred (the man who owns her), a married military commander whose wife is infertile. Her sole purpose is to produce a child. Abortion is illegal, and women are controlled by male leaders whose scheme is to block women's autonomy over their own bodies." - Marie Claire

Understand Project 2025 plan for women

On women losing the right to vote
On contraception being illegal 
On women and free movement 
On violence against women allowed (because rape and incest are so hard to prove in court and so many "exceptions" require it)
On no education for women  (because IVF has allowed women to get higher education and advanced degrees, delaying childbirth)
On medical treatments banned 
(Thanks to Andra Watkins for compiling this list)

How Opus Dei turn America could turn into Gilead with Project 2025

All the Chilling Parallels Between 'The Handmaid's Tale' and Life for Women in Trump's America - Marie Claire
Gilead's 16 Most Terrifying Laws In The Handmaid's Tale - ScreenRant
Slouching Towards Gilead - The Atlantic
Inside the MAGA Plan to Attack Birth Control, Surveil Women and Ban the Abortion Pill - Rolling Stone
What The MAGA PROJECT 2025 means for women in America - HER CAMPUS
How Project 2025 Will Ruin Your Life - Andra Watkins
Watch Handmaid's Tale - Hulu

TakeAway: White Christian Nationalism. Politicized religion. Abortion bans... organize to resist while you can.

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