HONOLULU – Hawaii state Rep. Bob McDermott is hoping to spur an Internal Revenue Service investigation into Planned Parenthood’s excessive lobbying efforts, which he believes violates laws governing its nonprofit tax status.

“Planned Parenthood has been aggressively forcing its way into the public school system, and its push for ‘social engineering’ over valid health and welfare of students is our major concern,” McDermott told the Hawaii Free Press. “The excessive lobbying and pressure they’ve put on legislators to override the Department of Education is way over the line for a 501(c)(3) tax exempt corporation.”

McDermott sent a letter to Tamera L. Ripperda, director of the IRS’ Exempt Organizations Division, on August 3 after Planned Parenthood heavily lobbied the Hawaii Board of Education to reimpose the organization’s preferred sex education curriculum on all public schools. The decision requires the Department of Education and public schools to administer the program in a way that parents must “opt out” if they don’t want their child to participate.

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The DOE previously decided to require “opt in” after McDermott uncovered medically inaccurate and misleading information, and made other objections about lessons that glorified homosexuality. Planned Parenthood first turned unsuccessfully to the legislature to reverse that decision before lobbying the BOE, according to the representative’s letter, published by the Free Press.

“The purpose of this letter is twofold: (1) to alert you to excessive (I believe illegal) and inappropriate lobbying conducted by Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s Hawaii affiliates; and (2) to urge your division to investigate the manner in which these tax-exempt non-profit organizations lobbied state legislators and members of the Hawaii Board of Education to revert to a harmful parental ‘opt-out’ policy for sex education curriculum in Hawaii’s public schools,” McDermott wrote to Ripperda.

“It is my personal observation and strong belief that these organizations – now known as Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and the Hawaiian Islands and Planned Parenthood Votes Northwest and Hawaii – have exploited their tax-exempt status and acted in bad faith.  They went far beyond conducting acceptable ‘educational activities’ and engaged in excessive ‘lobbying’ beyond all reasonable meaning of the term as used in section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code.  In sum, they launched an all-out attack on Hawaii’s approach to sex education in public schools and crossed all lines of decency and appropriateness.”

McDermott included a detailed timeline of the developments involving the Planned Parenthood curriculum, known as “Pono Choices.” McDermott has previously issued multiple reports detailing how the curriculum is “normalizing homosexual lifestyles” and “putting students at risk by withholding critical facts.”

McDermott has also highlighted the fact that schools used tax dollars to purchase gift cards for students who participated in Pono Choices, at the same time they surveyed them on whether they liked the curriculum.

“Hawaii’s parents are in the unique situation of having their own tax dollars used to propagandize the ‘value’ of this deceptive intrusion into their public schools, to ‘sell’ them on a program they didn’t ask for and don’t want. Paying to be brainwashed so you will consent to pay more to have your children brainwashed is not a good use of tax dollars,” he told Watchdog.org.

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McDermott has also called on the governor of Hawaii to investigate Planned Parenthood’s dealings in The Aloha State, according to Ohana Policy Group.