Reminder: Pulpit Initiative Today

Reminder: Pulpit Initiative Today

For those who weren’t paying attention, today’s the day of the
Alliance Defense Fund’s
Pulpit Freedom Sunday,
in which pastors are protesting the fact that their churches’
tax-exempt status comes with strings attached, namely rules against
endorsing political candidates, same as any other non-profit
organization.

From what I’ve seen, the news coverage is mostly unsympathetic. The
Post’s On Faith column has a
guest post
in which the author tries to defend this act of civil disobedience,
and gets smacked down in the comments.

So it looks as though most people recognize that the participating
churches are trying to have their cake and eat it too, and can cry me
a tax-exempt river.

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  1. Better have been a mighty big cake….

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/28/AR2008092802365.html?hpid=topnews

    33 Pastors Flout Tax Law With Political Sermons

    By Peter Slevin
    Washington Post Staff Writer
    Monday, September 29, 2008; Page A02

    CROWN POINT, Ind., Sept. 28 — Defying a federal law that prohibits U.S. clergy from endorsing political candidates from the pulpit, an evangelical Christian minister told his congregation Sunday that voting for Sen. Barack Obama would be evidence of “severe moral schizophrenia.”

    Y’know, I’m of at least two minds about this…

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