Exodus Global Alliance has enjoyed tax-exempt status in New Zealand for more than 10 years. This year, however, they have been denied that status on the grounds that they do not meet one of the requirements for being declared a “charity,” providing a “public benefit:”
Exodus Ministries has had charitable status, exempting it from income tax, for more than a decade but the status was removed by the Charities Commission this month under a regime introduced in 2007.
The commission said the trust was not performing any public benefit because homosexuality was not a mental disorder and did not need curing.
The commission noted that the American Psychological Association said there was little scientific evidence to show that homosexuality could be “cured” and attempts to do so could cause harm.
Hardly the only charity targeted by the commission, in fact 1,224 other organizations have been deregistered for being “too political, too commercial, or not having the required paperwork.” 978 have been deregistered this year alone.
EGA is not a part of Exodus International, about whom XGW reports much more often. Rather, they are a global umbrella organization of which Exodus is a member. Details about this relationship can be found on this page of the EGA site. While Exodus International is largely affiliated with the United States, Canada, the UK and Mexico, EGA states that they encompass Africa, Asia Pacific, Brazil, China, Europe, the Middle East, India, and Latin America. Their “International Office” is located in Toronto, Canada.
Cue the cries of religious persecution and the “silencing” of the church.
if they’re in a conspiracy to “silence the church,” they’re also in a conspiracy to silence Greenpeace – their charity status has also been revoked.
I think we could probably do with tighter restrictions on tax-exempt organizations here as well.
“if they’re in a conspiracy to “silence the church,” they’re also in a conspiracy to silence Greenpeace – their charity status has also been revoked.”
New Zealand and Greenpeace? That reminds me of the DGSE sinking the Rainbow Warriror. Don’t really care about Greenpeace ever since they ignorantly considered fusion power to be a bad thing. They’ve lost all credibility since then.
@Emily K
Not when Exodus tells the story 😉
From page 5 of “The Complete Christian Guide to Understanding Homosexuality,” under the heading: The Dark Side of a Movement:
The link provided was this, which then claimed as it’s reference: Report of the Office of Film and Literature Classification , 30 June 2002 , p.5.
For all the searching I’ve been doing since your response, Emily, the word “initially” in the quote above seems to be the operating factor (not to mention the fact that New Zealand’s free speech laws are different from our own) PDF Link
As far as I’ve been able to determine, the video(s) in question—the only ones that came up again and again—that we (“militant homosexual activists“) are being blamed for “initially” banning is/are: Gay Rights/Special Rights: Inside the Homosexual Agenda and AIDS: What You Haven’t Been Told
So I wouldn’t put it passed them to blame us for losing their tax-exempt status in NZ, just like how “we” put the Boston Catholic Charities adoption agency out of business due to loss of their loss of tax-exempt status.
Or maybe they’ll just claim that the New Zealand Charities Commission is run by “homosexual activists.”