Hypocrisy? Taxation: Religious places of worship vs Planned Parenthood

[Judge]

So churches and synagogues and mosques and spaghetti monster fruitatariums cannot get involved with politics....meaning they cannot tell their parish who to vote for. If they do, then they lose tax status.

This being the case, why can Planned Parenthood get taxpayer money and then give considerably large donations to the democrat party?

Would it be fair if you are an organization getting taxpayer dollars that you should not be able to give money to political campaigns? Seems like maybe conflict of interest or something.

Now, you can sit there and argue that they are both doing things good or bad for society or whatever, I could care less, it just seems this is a bit of hypocrisy.
Do we get taxed to give money to the NRA? I don't think so.

 

[JudoThrowFiasco]

How much less could you care?

But as towards your questions:

• IRS has stringent rules on all charitable organizations ability to donate to political campaigns, of which churches fall under -- it really has nothing to do with separation of church and state.
• Religious figures can absolutely back candidates and the US has a long history of that.
• Plenty of tax funded organizations donate to political parties --public unions for example

Edit -- you indirectly stumbled upon an interesting run around -- planned parenthood itself is a 501(c)3 (like churches are) -- so they cannot technically contribute to a political cause, however, they do have affiliations that are not covered under tax exempt status and can donate via super pacs. Now if if your gripe is with that, you have a better argument

@kpt018 can you go a level deeper as to why a charitable nonprofit like PP can make political donations?