[CHRISTIAN DIARIST]

I think the clergy have been wary of speaking against candidates like Obama, for fear that their churches would be threatened by the IRS with loss of their tax exempt status.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I have to call it cowarice. The IRS has, to my knowledge, pulled the tax exemption of only one Church in several decades: that was the "Church at Pierce Creek" in Buinghampton NY in 2005, for buying a full-page ad in USA Today in which they defiantly made an overt political endorsement. They practically had to beg or dare the IRS to bust them.

And I call it 10,000 x cowardace for my Church, the Catholic Church, in particular, for not even enforcing its own internal Canon Law requirements (Canon 915), let alone speaking out in the Public Square.

I must examine my own conscience for cowardice, sloth, and hypocrisy.