{"id":3314,"date":"2020-03-02T12:58:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T17:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/au.test\/the-latest\/church-and-state\/articles\/religious-right-groups-claim-to-be-churches-to\/"},"modified":"2020-03-02T12:58:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T17:58:36","slug":"religious-right-groups-claim-to-be-churches-to","status":"publish","type":"cs_article","link":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/the-latest\/church-and-state\/articles\/religious-right-groups-claim-to-be-churches-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Right Groups Claim To Be Churches To Avoid IRS Reporting Requirements"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two large conservative groups are claiming to be churches to avoid public reporting requirements and oversight from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), <em>The Washington Post <\/em>has reported.<\/p>\n<p>Focus on the Family (FOF) and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) have both told the IRS they are now houses of worship. As such, they are no longer required to issue publicly available financial documents that show how they spend their money and how much they pay top executives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"cs_issue_tax":[109],"cs_article_type":[156],"class_list":["post-3314","cs_article","type-cs_article","status-publish","hentry","cs_issue_tax-march-2020-church-state","cs_article_type-people-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_article\/3314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cs_article"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_article\/3314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cs_issue_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_issue_tax?post=3314"},{"taxonomy":"cs_article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_article_type?post=3314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}