IRS documents show the relationship between love, sex cult
Internal Revenue Service documents of the Family Care Foundation, a non-profit association of a charitable Southern California, show deep and lasting ties between the Organization and the Family, the evangelical sex cult rockten by the recent murder of a suicide.
But officials of the Family Care Foundation deny any link with the controversial cult.
The religious sect, formerly known as the Son of God began in the late 1960, Oakland native David “Moses” mountain, drew tens of thousands of supporters in the years 1970, with its brewing the strange evangelical Christianity and sexual license.
But J. Gordon Melton, an authority on new religions, the family for years, said the sect was the non-profit foundation that helps money for religious projects.
“The Family Care Foundation, the family,” said Melton, directs the American Institute on the future of religion in Santa Barbara.
According to tax documents of the Confederation and annual reports from 1997 to 2003, the foundation increases of more than $ 9.9 million in cash, including donations and other types of gifts for projects around the globe - taking orphans and street children in health care training programs and disaster relief.
James Penn, spent more than a decade in the inner circle of the globe-trotting of worship, “said Family Care Foundation is a” Front government “, which are of the family to earn tax-deductible donations and fund missionaries in the world will bear Worship “beliefs and practices strange.”
“People would not be a charitable foundation if they knew that their leader has endorsed the sexual exploitation of minors and religious prostitution,” said Penn, has helped launch the Foundation before leaving the family 1998.
Larry Corley, director of the Foundation, the Fund said his organization many “independent projects around the world.”
“There is no relationship, period,” he said. “It is not a Front for the family. It is not related to the family.”
Former members say that the vast majority of projects funded by the Family Foundation. Two programs for children, one of which has its headquarters in San Francisco, have a time cult members, held separate charges of sexual exploitation of children.
All six officers Internal Revenue Service on the documents of the Foundation during the past year have links on the cult, in conformity with them, the sect.
One of them, Angela Smith, as a member of the Foundation Board of Directors, was killed on January 8 in Tucson, seems Ricky “Davidito” Rodriguez. Rodriguez was the son of Karen “Maria” Zerby, married, in the mountains, until his death in 1994 and is now the head of the family spiritual leader and prophet.
Rodriguez, defects, the cult in 2000 was born into the sect in 1975 and grew up, her mother, regarded as one of “two witnesses” to establish, in the apocalyptic “end” battles foretold in the Bible, Book of the Apocalypse.
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