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?Pulpit Freedom? fighters still waiting for IRS to act

By ADF Alliance Alert

Indianapolis Star: 'Pulpit Freedom Sunday,' as it was called, was supposed to be a collective thumb in the eye at the Internal Revenue Service, who is responsible for patrolling for political activity among churches and other organizations that enjoy tax exempt status . . . The goal was to provoke the IRS into a legal fight that the pastors and their legal backers, the Alliance Defense Fund, hoped would lead to restrictions on the neutrality for tax breaks policy being lifted. But seven months later, as the Associated Press reported last week, the IRS has yet to move."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on April 28, 2009 (boomark / email).