The IRS has settled a lawsuit brought by the National Organization for Marriage, who took legal action against the agency when one of the agency's employees leaked the group's tax return to a pro-gay marriage organization. A consent decree orders the IRS to pay NOM $50,000. Meanwhile, the Justice Department refuses to initiate an investigation into which IRS employee illegally leaked the information to a gay activist in Boston. The Heritage Foundation's blog The Daily Signal: The Daily Signal has learned that, under a consent judgment today, the IRS agreed to pay $50,000 in damages to the National Organization for Marriage as a result of the unlawful release of the confidential information to a gay rights group, the Human Rights Campaign, that is NOM’s chief political rival. “Congress made the disclosure of confidential tax return information a serious matter for a reason,” NOM Chairman John D. Eastman told The Daily Signal....(Read Full Post)