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Rights Equal Rights
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(RER)—formerly called Californians Against Hate. Mormon Tips was started in January 2017 by RER founder
Fred Karger
Fred S. Karger (born January 31, 1950) is an American political consultant, gay rights activist and watchdog, and former actor. His unsuccessful candidacy for the Republican nomination for the 2012 US presidential election made him the first o ...
as a way to collect evidence of tax fraud by
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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(LDS Church) submitted from anonymous sources. The organization will then use the gathered information to file a complaint with the IRS in order to revoke the LDS Church's tax-exempt status.
History
The founder of Mormon Tips and RER, Fred Karger, first began a campaign opposing political activities of the LDS Church while running for the US presidency in 2011, with outspoken opposition to the church's efforts to block efforts for the legal recognition of same-sex marriages.
He picketed LDS stores and bookstores,
and filed a formal complaint with the
California Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) against the LDS Church, accusing the church of hiding the extent of its financial involvement supporting Proposition 8.
Karger noticed discrepancies between the $2,078 worth of non-monetary contributions that the LDS Church had reported and all the activities that the church had undertaken to pass Proposition 8.
Roman Porter, the executive director of the FPPC, announced a full investigation later that month. The investigation examined the church’s involvement in providing phone banks, a website and commercials for Proposition 8,
ultimately finding the church guilty of 13 violations, which the LDS Church settled by paying a fine.
Inspired by the WikiLeaks
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project, Karger launched Mormon Tips as a way to gather evidence to oppose the political actions of the LDS Church by seeking to revoke its tax-exempt status.
See also
* MormonLeaks
Truth & Transparency Foundation (TTF; formerly MormonLeaks and originally Mormon WikiLeaks) was a whistleblowing organization inspired by WikiLeaks, which focused on exposing documents from the leadership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da ...
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* The Divine Institution of Marriage "The Divine Institution of Marriage" is a video production of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Produced in 2008, the video was broadcast via satellite to LDS Church meetinghouses throughout the world. The video describe ...
* Protests against Proposition 8 supporters
Protests against Proposition 8 supporters in California took place starting in November 2008. These included prominent protests against the Roman Catholic church and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), which supported C ...
* California Proposition 8 (2008)
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