Reply #45: It's done routinely by organizations that combine charity and lobbying. [View All]

[Tesha]

For example, the ACLU and its various affiliates are *VERY CAREFUL*
to separate their charitable work (the legal stuff: defending people and
the constitution) from their lobbying efforts.

The IRS is "rather insistent" that they be very careful about this, right
down to the level of counting the number of photocopies cranked out
on the copy machine, minutes of telephone time used, and the like.

Churches could do this too if the law were actually enforced against them
in the same way it's enforced against "lefties".

Tesha