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A former top director with the Internal Revenue Service has filed a complaint against the Missouri Catholic Conference, claiming that the nonprofit group broke rules against politicking in a statewide fight over embryonic stem cell research
Christian Century, August 22, 2006
A former top director with the Internal Revenue Service has filed a complaint against the Missouri Catholic Conference, claiming that the nonprofit group broke rules against politicking in a statewide fight over embryonic stem cell research. Washington-based lawyer Marcus Owens said the Catholic group tried to intimidate Missouri politicians into returning campaign donations given by supporters of the research, according to news reports.
Owens worked for the IRS for 25 years, including ten as director of the Exempt Organizations Division, says his law firm's Web site. Several religious groups in Missouri, including the advocacy agency for the state's four Catholic dioceses, are urging state lawmakers to reject a constitutional amendment that would protect embryonic stem cell research from efforts to ban it. Larry Webber, the conference's executive director, said "10 to 15" lawmakers had returned campaign donations. The group will continue to fight the constitutional amendment despite Owens's complaint, Webber added.
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