There is a campaign to rescind the People for the Ethical Treatment
of Animals' (PETA) tax exempt status. PETA is an animal rights
organization that believes that animals have the same rights as
people and should not be eaten, worn, used in medical research, kept
as pets, used in entertainment (circuses and zoos) or bred in
captivity even if their wild populations are becoming extinct -
'better dead than bred' has been their motto for years. They are not
an animal welfare group - that is a group that works to provide
humane standards of care for animals and in fact, they are quite
contemptuous of animal welfare groups. PETA has engaged in a variety
of fraudulent and sometimes offensive campaigns such as "Jesus was a
vegetarian", "holocaust on a plate" (that equates the eating of
animals to the extermination of Jews during World War II) and
provides money to organizations such as the Earth Liberation Front
(who recently fire-bombed a Hummer dealership in Los Angeles) and
others that have been named by the FBI as domestic terrorist
organizations. They also use their millions of tax free dollars to
lobby for laws - something that is a direct violation of their tax
exempt status. While I believe that everyone has the right to make
their own decision regarding vegetarianism or the wearing of leather,
I do not believe that any organization has the right to push their
agenda down my throat, especially if they are using tax laws
illegally to do it. For those of you who feel the same, I am asking
you to please go to http://www.petitiononline.com/rvkptaex/ and sign
this petition for yourself. When I signed up yesterday, there were
almost 64,000 signatures - I would like to see 600,000 or better yet,
6,000,000 signatures. Please feel free to pass on this information
and not only to other bird people but cat, dog, hamster, reptile -
anyone that keeps or breeds companion animals as well as your friends
and family. This organization's sole purpose is to end the keeping of
all animals and I for one love mine too much to allow a radical
organization to take away my rights to live in peace and freedom with
my animals. If you agree, sign the petition.
FEEL FREE TO CROSS POST THIS TO OTHER LISTS!!! IN FACT, PLEASE DO SO
of Animals' (PETA) tax exempt status. PETA is an animal rights
organization that believes that animals have the same rights as
people and should not be eaten, worn, used in medical research, kept
as pets, used in entertainment (circuses and zoos) or bred in
captivity even if their wild populations are becoming extinct -
'better dead than bred' has been their motto for years. They are not
an animal welfare group - that is a group that works to provide
humane standards of care for animals and in fact, they are quite
contemptuous of animal welfare groups. PETA has engaged in a variety
of fraudulent and sometimes offensive campaigns such as "Jesus was a
vegetarian", "holocaust on a plate" (that equates the eating of
animals to the extermination of Jews during World War II) and
provides money to organizations such as the Earth Liberation Front
(who recently fire-bombed a Hummer dealership in Los Angeles) and
others that have been named by the FBI as domestic terrorist
organizations. They also use their millions of tax free dollars to
lobby for laws - something that is a direct violation of their tax
exempt status. While I believe that everyone has the right to make
their own decision regarding vegetarianism or the wearing of leather,
I do not believe that any organization has the right to push their
agenda down my throat, especially if they are using tax laws
illegally to do it. For those of you who feel the same, I am asking
you to please go to http://www.petitiononline.com/rvkptaex/ and sign
this petition for yourself. When I signed up yesterday, there were
almost 64,000 signatures - I would like to see 600,000 or better yet,
6,000,000 signatures. Please feel free to pass on this information
and not only to other bird people but cat, dog, hamster, reptile -
anyone that keeps or breeds companion animals as well as your friends
and family. This organization's sole purpose is to end the keeping of
all animals and I for one love mine too much to allow a radical
organization to take away my rights to live in peace and freedom with
my animals. If you agree, sign the petition.
FEEL FREE TO CROSS POST THIS TO OTHER LISTS!!! IN FACT, PLEASE DO SO
Our church is not a business or a charity, we don't use a tax exemption for anything. All our money comes from freewill offerings by members, and the money is used for renting the meetinghouse, paying the preacher, supporting missionaries, helping the poor among ourselves, and buying Bibles and songbooks. That's all we do.
