IRS Won't Investigate Religious Right-Wingers

[AtomicKitten]

IRS won't investigate religious right wingers
from http://americablog.blogspot.com/

What a surprise. The Bush IRS is investigating progressive churches. But they won't touch the right-wing religious groups that are doing politics in Ohio:

A group of religious leaders accused the Internal Revenue Service yesterday of playing politics by ignoring its complaint that two large churches in Ohio are engaging in what it says are political activities, in violation of the tax code.

In a letter to Commissioner Mark W. Everson, the clergy members cited reports of political events involving Fairfield Christian Church in Fairfield and World Harvest Church in Columbus and groups affiliated with them that have occurred or been disclosed since they raised the issue in January.

The group argues that the churches may be violating prohibitions on political activities by charities and other tax-exempt organizations and has asked the I.R.S. to audit their political activities.

The group often notes that the agency is investigating All Saints Church, a large liberal Episcopal church in Pasadena, Calif., over a sermon in 2004 that imagined a debate among Jesus, President Bush and Senator John Kerry, then the Democratic presidential candidate, and asks why the agency has not begun a similar audit of the two Ohio churches, which are conservative.

There will be no audit because those Ohio churches are helping Ken Blackwell become Governor of Ohio. And, Bush owes Blackwell.

The IRS is just another political tool for Bush and Rove.

Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/07/us/07church.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1144440737-qOCts5YT+R7eYXZ57Pflyw

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[xchrom]

1. liberal/progressives will have to concede that funy christians really do

have their war game on.

they mean business and they mean to force every one into their mold.

they now have the power to act out in ways like the ones described -- and suffer nothing.

[olaus]

2. I cannot

read the story (no account) what Churches have been looked at by the IRS?

[xchrom]

4. a liberal episcopal church in socal

is being investigated by the irs after a sermon that was interpreted as political and anti bush.

while two large fundy churches in ohio very much involved in voting report cards and everything else with their congretion -- and the irs having received letters of complaints -- are going un-investigated.

nut shell.

[AtomicKitten]

5. here are some tasty excerpts

(BTW, you just need to sign up, don't need to pay)

A group of religious leaders accused the Internal Revenue Service yesterday of playing politics by ignoring its complaint that two large churches in Ohio are engaging in what it says are political activities, in violation of the tax code. In a letter to Commissioner Mark W. Everson, the clergy members cited reports of political events involving Fairfield Christian Church in Fairfield and World Harvest Church in Columbus and groups affiliated with them that have occurred or been disclosed since they raised the issue in January.

"This latest complaint filed by a group of left-leaning clergy amounts to nothing more than a campaign of harassment, and with the primary election just three weeks away, the timing couldn't be more obvious," the church said in a statement.

The critics' group says that the two churches' activities continue to support the gubernatorial candidacy of Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell almost exclusively, violating requirements that nonprofit organizations treat all candidates in a race even-handedly.

In 2004, Mr. Blackwell flew to three events on the World Harvest Church plane with its pastor, the Rev. Rodney L. Parsley, to protest same-sex marriages. Mr. Blackwell paid $1,000 for the flights, The Associated Press said, and Mr. Hudson noted that Mr. Blackwell took the trips before he was officially a candidate.

[melody]

3. RW fundamentalists are sociopathic - all we can do is ban them

They'll otherwise find ways to subvert every system for themselves and against everyone else.

[AX10]

6. It's called Fascism!