In article <ZE3xi.1833$4w7.21@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Sanders Kaufman <bucky@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Kudos to the IRS for finally going after these kinds of pseudo-churches.
>
>
http://www.thecronline.com/news_article.php?nid=2917&ndate=16/08/2007
>
> Churches get a tax-exempt status from the IRS for most things. But if a
> church decides to break election laws, they lose that exemption.
>
> That's what happened to the Christian Coalition back in the 1980's when
> it was determined that they were not, as they had claimed, a church -
> but rather, a political campaign cor****ation for Republicans.
>
> Churches are free to *discuss* politics, but once they issue religious
> edicts (or fatwa's.), endorsing one politician or another, they cross
> the line between religion and politics; becoming just another campaign
> cor****ation.
>
> But it gets better - once these Republican churches are caught abusing
> their privleges and lose that tax exemption, the IRS will audit them to
> determine the extent of their crimes.
You are a day late and a dollar short. They do not endorse the right
wing candidates. They merely exorcize the Democrat candidate. Their
message is crystal clear, but they do not step over the line of
political endorsement.
Check with our politicized Supreme Court.
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Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine tätige Unwissenheit.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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