Bigot-group Family First has been stripped of its charity status by the Charities Registration Board:
The Charities Registration Board said in a decision today the reason was "because it does not advance exclusively charitable purposes".
"The board considers that Family First has a purpose to promote its own particular views about marriage and the traditional family that cannot be determined to be for the public benefit in a way previously accepted as charitable," said chairman Chairman Roger Holmes Miller.
"Family First has the freedom to continue to communicate its views and influence policy and legislation but the board has found that Family First's pursuit of those activities do not qualify as being for the public benefit in a charitable sense."
Or, to put it another way, hate and bigotry are not publicly beneficial. Which is pretty obvious, really.
Family First will naturally be appealing. I hope they fail. Not that this will put them out of business - they'll just need to pay tax like normal people, rather than being able to spew their hate tax-free.
