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: The Volokh ConspiracyPastors Getting Political
By Jonathan H. Adler
Via Paul Caron comes this story from USA Today about ?Pulpit Freedom Sunday,? an effort by 100 preachers around the country to challenge IRS rules that threaten churches with the loss of nonprofit status if they endorse candidates. The pastors will explicitly urge their congregations to support specific candidates in their sermons today. Given the involvement of the Alliance Defense Fund, I suspect most of the endorsed candidates will be conservative Republicans. Meanwhile, Caron also notes that the Obama Administration?s Office of Faith-based Initiatives is urging religious leaders to become ?validators? of health care reform.
Full post as published by The Volokh Conspiracy on September 26, 2010 (boomark / email).

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Group of pastors will defy ban on endorsement-sermons
LA Times: Pastors plan to defy IRS ban on political speech
Pastors to challenge IRS on Pulpit Freedom Sunday







