Focus on the Family Retains Charity Status

The Internal Revenue Service has ruled that Focus on the Family will keep its tax-exempt status despite the public political stances taken by its chairman, James Dobson.

News of the decision was released by the Colorado Springs religious organization itself, which received the government's opinion but declined to provide a copy of it to The Chronicle.

Mr. Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family, endorsed Republican candidates for office in 2004, and his religious

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