{"id":13663,"date":"2015-08-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/religiousfreedomthreats\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:05:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:05:18","slug":"religiousfreedomthreats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/religiousfreedomthreats\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS Downplays Gay Marriage Religious Freedom Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Knowledge is protection when the IRS is involved. I'm Darrin Mish, a tax attorney in Tampa with 32 years of experience representing taxpayers nationwide. Here's what I want you to understand.<\/p>\n

Although the Supreme Court recently acknowledged that same-sex civil marriages were an essential right in the United States, the religious non-profits\u2019 tax status will not be retracted by the Internal Revenue Service.<\/p>\n

Scott Pruitt, Oklahoma Attorney General, stated the decision<\/a> was \u201ca victory for religious freedom in the United States and for non-profit charities, churches, and religiously affiliated universities who feared they would be denied tax-exempt status by the IRS because their sincerely held religious beliefs prohibit them from participating in same-sex marriage.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Pruitt, his office will be sure the IRS upholds its decision and will continue to verify and \u201censure Americans aren\u2019t targeted unfairly for exercising their religious rights.\u201d Furthermore, Pruitt feels the decision from the IRS gives these organizations promise that First Amendment rights are protected.<\/p>\n

During the Supreme Court\u2019s debate about same-sex marriages, Justice Samuel Alito questioned U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verilli on if a religious educational institution that believed marriage was only a union of one man and one woman would be subjected to its tax exempt status being revoked. According to Verilli, this question was \u201ccertainly going to be an issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the moment, a federal law does not exist that prevents discrimination due to an individual\u2019s sexual orientation. There are certain federal guidelines that have been used by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that could validate a lawsuit be presented by employees who are part of a same-sex civil marriage.<\/p>\n

Check out more IRS News<\/a> stories by clicking that link.<\/p>\n

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Knowledge is protection when the IRS is involved. I'm Darrin Mish, a tax attorney in Tampa with 32 years of experience representing taxpayers nationwide. Here's what I want you to understand. Although the Supreme Court recently acknowledged that same-sex civil marriages were an essential right in the United States, the religious non-profits\u2019 tax status will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[591],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irs-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22616,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13663\/revisions\/22616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}