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Erik Stanley: Pelosi to Catholic Bishops: Talk about politics from the pulpit

By Alliance Alert

ADF Attorney Erik Stanley writing at speakupmovement.org/church: "Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi spoke last week at the Catholic Community Conference and urged Catholic priests and bishops to talk up immigration reform from their pulpits. Pelosi reportedy stated, 'The cardinals, the archbishops, the bishops that come to me ? say, "We want you to pass immigration reform," and I said, I want you to speak about it from the pulpit.' . . . The point is that the government has been sending mixed messages for too long to our nation?s pastors. On the one hand, politicians encourage pastors to speak from their pulpits when it is convenient, but on the other, the IRS comes knocking on the church?s door when a pastor speaks in a way that is not favored by those in power or crosses the IRS' imaginary line between what is permitted and what is prohibited."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on May 12, 2010 (boomark / email).