{"id":198675,"date":"2007-10-18T23:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/18\/cristofascist-groups-rake-in-the-dough\/"},"modified":"2007-10-18T23:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T04:05:00","slug":"cristofascist-groups-rake-in-the-dough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/18\/cristofascist-groups-rake-in-the-dough\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristofascist Groups Rake in the Dough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Americans United for Separation of Church and State, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.au.org\/site\/News2?JServSessionIdr009=5501wd0ol2.app7b&amp;abbr=pr&amp;page=NewsArticle&amp;id=9429&amp;security=1002&amp;news_iv_ctrl=1241\">a review of IRS returns shows that Christofascist groups receipts skyrocketed in 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>James Dobson\u2019s Focus on the Family took in $142.2 million in 2006, a $4.4 million increase over the previous year. (In addition, Dobson\u2019s Focus on the Family Action took in $14.6 million in 2006.)<\/li>\n<li>Tony Perkins\u2019 Family Research Council took in $10.3 million in 2006, an increase of over $900,000 over the previous year. (FRC Action, an affiliated group, took in $1.1 million in 2006.)<\/li>\n<li>Don Wildmon\u2019s American Family Association took in $16.9 million in 2006.<\/li>\n<li>Alan Sears\u2019 Alliance Defense Fund took in $26.1 million in 2006, an increase of $4.1 million over last year.<\/li>\n<li>TV preacher Pat Robertson\u2019s Christian Broadcasting Network took in $236.3 million in 2005, a $49.8 million increase over the previous year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Remember, just because the Democrats won congress in 2006, and look likely to win the presidency in 2008 does not mean that they are going away.<\/p>\n<p>By way of example 99.8%, or <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">499 out of 500<\/span> complaints to the FCC in 2003 were from the Christofascist group Action for Children&#8217;s Television.<\/p>\n<p>These people are still a cancer on the body politic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a review of IRS returns shows that Christofascist groups receipts skyrocketed in 2006. James Dobson\u2019s Focus on the Family took in $142.2 million in 2006, a $4.4 million increase over the previous year. (In addition, Dobson\u2019s Focus on the Family Action took in $14.6 million &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1067,978,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-politics","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}