There is a lot of media air-time
and words spent talking about the unconscionable targeting by the IRS of
conservative groups seeking to gain status as a charitable organization in
order to obtain tax exempt status. One
point of contention and disgrace of the practice is that it specifically
targeted only select groups that had words like patriot, or tea party as part
of its title. The charge is that other,
more liberal, organizations were not treated so unfairly by not being targeted
for a microscopic review of the organization with questions that actually
risked restricting individual's and organization's rights to privacy. This scandal has reached proportions that may
result in the firing of high-ranking officials of the IRS and possibly even
Administration Cabinet-level officials.
As egregious as this
scandal is, when we put it in perspective with another incident that occurred
in 1973, it becomes questionable that this incident is quite so enormous by
comparison. That incident was the Roe
vs. Wade decision that legalized the death of children by legally taking their
lives through abortion based on a woman's right to choose. Talk about targeting conservative groups think
about abortion targeting only unborn babies.
Those babies have been legally targeted by the lawmakers at the state
and federal level. No other group has
been targeted for such treatment; if they were, it would cause a scandal that
could be heard around the world. Those
babies' rights have been completely ignored for all these years; a number of
human lives that have accumulated to over 56,281,000 infant souls taken from
this world through abortion completely legally.
The fact alone that these
two scandals can stand side-by-side in our society with one being viewed as perfectly
legal, and even desired by so many in our country, while the other is viewed as
the atrocity it is, demonstrates the sliding toward almost total immorality and
the decline of civility in our culture.
Jim Killebrew
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