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More than 1,000 religious leaders across America will take part today in “Pulpit Freedom Sunday,” a plan that has pastors endorsing political candidates from the pulpit in defiance of an Internal Revenue Service rule.
Pastors are hoping their bold move will prompt the IRS to enforce the 1954 tax code, the so-called Johnson Amendment, which prohibits tax-exempt organizations, such as churches, from making political endorsements. The law states it is illegal for churches that receive tax-exempt status from the federal government to intervene in “any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office.”
The IRS is a machine not holy or unholy. It does it's work based on the laws that are passed by congress and signed into law by the president. It's a good move by the preachers if they want the Johnson ammendment tested in court.
The IRS was set up by religious men for the most part and continues to run the way it does with their blessing.
Well I'm waiting to see just what the IRS does. My guess is NOTHING.
Not unlike the local fire prevention marshal who observes illegal activity in the form of open flames at a church service. There are some places they simply won't go.
If Obama really wants to lose this election let him loose the IRS on churches a week before election.
This is the fifth year they've done this. They record their speeches and send them to the IRS. Personally, I'd like to see their tax exempt status taken away. But it's not going to happen until the Supreme Court is forced to get involved....which is really their goal in doing this.
Why would "religion" be the big descriptor to go head to head with the IRS over? Why not spotlight the "commercial" aspect of some churches actually acting as business entities and thereby being in conflict with tax exempt status.
Oh wait; they'd have to tackle all those mosques and temples acting as brokers for Muslim and Sikh truckers, getting paid for their services in the form of tithes from those trucks incomes.
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