“I have read many articles of Lerner Harassing religious orgs”
I keep waiting for someone or some entity to stress the IRS’ harassment of Billy Graham and Franklin Graham. These are people who have always been above reproach, and even the biggest libs can’t deny that. Showing that Billy Graham was a victim of the IRS would make it possible for even the most ignorant lib “get it”.
No harassment of Rev Wrights church though. They still have their exemption.
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From 2008
Obama Pastors’ Sermon May Violate Tax Laws
Excerpt:
Mr. Wright wasn’t at a convention or a campaign stop. He was standing at the pulpit before the mostly African-American congregation of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ, where Sen. Obama has worshiped for more than 20 years.
Mr. Wright, who will be ending his 36-year tenure as the church’s senior pastor in June, has previously been criticized for comments deriding President George Bush and lauding Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam. Now Mr. Wright’s and his successor’s repeated enthusiastic promotion of their famous parishioner may be running afoul of federal tax law, which says churches can endanger their tax-exempt status by endorsing or opposing candidates for public office.
Sen. Obama’s campaign issued a statement saying that he has repeatedly stressed that personal attacks “have no place in this campaign or our politics, whether they’re offered from a platform at a rally or the pulpit of a church.” The statement also said he “does not think of the pastor of his church in political terms. Like a member of his family, there are things he says with which Senator Obama deeply disagrees.’’ Mr. Wright declined to comment./
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120511457633523621.html