Conservative leaders and clients of a firm that manages charitable giving have written a letter countering a Leftist effort to “unmask” and stymie conservatives’ donations.
The activist group “Unmask Fidelity” recently confronted the firm, Fidelity Charitable, demanding that it disclose five years’ worth of its grant activities involving conservative and Christian organizations such as Alliance Defending Freedom, the Family Research Council, and TurningPoint USA – unmasking Fidelity’s clients and exposing their non-profit benefactors to public controversy.
“Americans have always been free to give to nonprofit causes they believe in, but left-wing political activists are determined to limit that freedom,” wrote lawyer Jeremy Tedesco in a recent column at the Wall Street Journal. “Considering these activists’ record of successfully convincing corporations to do their bidding on a host of issues, everyone who supports the American traditions of free speech, free association and privacy should be concerned.”-- More...
