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Article: Pulpit protest shakes fist at IRS, public opinion.(CENTURY news)(Internal Revenue Service)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- November 4, 2008
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Although only 33 churches nationwide signed up to participate in a conservative Christian group's "pulpit freedom" protest on the last Sunday of September, the planners viewed it as a success.
Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund, which encouraged pastors to endorse political candidates from their pulpits, said the purpose was not to inject politics into worship services. Rather, it was aimed at prompting a legal battle over an Internal Revenue Service restriction which, as a condition of churches' tax exemption, prohibits them from endorsing political candidates.
ADF officials said they are prepared to defend any pastor targeted by the IRS for ...