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Maine churches launch effort to reverse ?gay marriage? law

By ADF Alliance Alert

Baptist Press: If California can do it, then so can Maine -- that's at least what Carole Edgerly of Farmington Baptist Church in Maine believes . . . IRS regulations are very clear that a church is allowed to support or oppose legislation -- including initiatives and referendums -- as long as it does not constitute a substantial part of the church's activities," Erik Stanley, an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund, a legal organization, told Baptist Press. "... Basically, if it's under about 15 percent of a church's activities overall, a church is allowed to do that. That's such a high threshold. Most churches never have more than that." A church, Stanley said, can gather signatures, address the issue from the pulpit and even take a church vote to formally endorse the People's Veto effort. "All of that is perfectly permissible," he said. "No one is going to get in trouble with the IRS for doing that."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on June 12, 2009 (boomark / email).