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Some Baptist pastors in California & 21 other states, in defiance of the federal ban, are planning to endorse McCain from their pulpits this Sunday. This violation against campaigning by non-profit groups could result in the churches losing their tax-exempt status
Pastors plan to defy IRS ban on political speech
Ministers will intentionally violate ban on campaigning by nonprofits in hopes of generating a test case.
Los Angeles Times - September 25, 2008
. . . Rev. Wiley S. Drake and other pastors of the conservative legal group, Alliance Defense Fund, will challenge the IRS' rules, a risky strategy that one defense fund attorney acknowledges could cost the churches their tax-exempt status. Congress made it illegal in 1954 for tax-exempt groups to publicly support or oppose political candidates.
"I'm going to talk about the un-biblical stands that Barack Obama takes. Nobody who follows the Bible can vote for him," said the Rev. Wiley S. Drake of First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park. "We may not be politically correct, but we are going to be biblically correct. We are going to vote for those who follow the Bible . . ."
Thats weird, aren't charities also tax-exempt groups? I see political banners and semi-public endorsements of political candidates at these places as well... I think its time the IRS starts to get rid of tax-exempt status of these tax shelters...
Wiley Drake is a certified screwball in Orange County! He's so anti gay, he's only about a half step up from Fred Phelps. Like Phred, he's always pulling some publicity stunt to get media attention.
I got an idea, how about we ban the freaking criminal IRS!
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