(Screenshot: Psychologist Doug Weiss speaks frequently on the topic of sexual intimacy and operates Heart to Heart Counseling Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Weiss also appears regularly on the Daystar Television Network TV program MinistryNow with his wife, Joni Lamb, president of Daystar.)
Over the weekend Daystar Television Co-Host Doug Weiss called Trinity Foundation, leaving a voicemail threatening to send a cease-and-desist letter if an article wasn’t taken down that Weiss claims is false. However, Trinity Foundation stands by its reporting.
The article Daystar Television Co-Host Doug Weiss Filed Questionable 990, Runs Association for Sex Therapists as a Personal Business was published in December 2024.
In Texas, the statute of limitations for libel is one year. Therefore, Weiss doesn’t have legal standing to sue. Also, the facts are not on the side of Weiss.
Weiss runs the non-profit Healing Time Ministries which filed postcard 990s with the IRS for 2022 and 2023, indicating the ministry generated $50,000 or less in revenue both years.
(Screenshot: IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search reports that Healing Time Ministries filed postcard 990s for 2022 and 2023.)
However, the ministry’s revenue for those two years was significantly higher.
Veteran TV news producer Jene Nelson discovered and first reported that Carl H and Edyth B Lindner Foundation gave a $400,000 grant to Healing Time Ministries in 2022 and a $150,000 grant in 2023. Therefore, Healing Time Ministries under-reported at least $450,000 in revenue. Where did this money go?
(Screenshot: Carl H and Edyth B Lindner Foundation 2022 Form 990-PF reveals $400,000 grant to Healing Time Ministries.)
On Monday February 2nd Trinity Foundation president Pete Evans called Weiss and asked if the accountant for Healing Time Ministries submitted an amended 990 and Weiss said yes. Following that call, Evans called the ministry’s accountant to request the 990 and left a voicemail, but as of yet has received no response.
Evans gave Weiss his email address and suggested he could email and tell us exactly what was wrong with the article and we would correct it.
Weiss claimed the postcard 990s were filed by accident and were subsequently corrected. However, there are no amended 990s available from the IRS website for 2022 and 2023. Also, the IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search does not report receiving a postcard or regular 990 for 2024.
Podcaster Shawn Ryan threatened
Podcaster Shawn Ryan was also threatened recently with legal action after speaking out about sexual abuse at Camp Kanakuk.
(Screenshot: Shawn Ryan mentions sexual abuse at Camp Kanakuk during an episode of the Shawn Ryan Show.)
For his podcast “Who is Protecting the Jeffrey Epstein Files?” Ryan spoke to Congressman Ro Khanna who authored the Epstein Files Transparency Act to force the release of the Epstein files.
Ryan told Representative Khanna, “I brought Elizabeth Phillips on and she talks about how they’ve [Kanaku] been molesting thousands of kids for years and putting them under NDA after a settlement so they can never, as a kid, so they can never come out and talk about their sexual issue at … Camp Kanakuk.” *
After the podcast, Attorney Bryan O. Wade of Husch Blackwell law firm sent Ryan a warning:
“You have ten (10) days from the date of this correspondence to take down that portion of the interview and publicly apologize for your defamatory statements. If you fail to do so, legal action will be taken.”
The allegation, “thousands of kids” being abused at Camp Kanakuk, could be an exaggeration, but at this point the burden of proof lies with Kanakuk Ministries.
The Supreme Court decision New York Times Co. v. Sullivan created important case law for libel litigation requiring that public figures prove the defendant knowing lied or practiced reckless disregard when making a comment.
The website Facts About Kanakuk claims, “We have received reports identifying over 70 abusers by name, but this list contains only those formally alleged in media, indicted or convicted in courts.”
*The ellipses replaces an f-Bomb.