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‘Real News From The Blaze’: Preaching Politics

Sep. 20, 2012 8:33pm Christopher Santarelli

Free speech, religious liberty and the role of government are often discussed on “Real News From The Blaze,” with all three at the heart of the increasing debate leading up to “Pulpit Freedom Sunday.”

Fox News reports that a group of more than 1,000 pastors are planning to challenge a 1954 tax code amendment that prohibits tax-exempt organizations, such as churches, from making political endorsements. At a summit next month, the preachers are planning to instigate the IRS to prosecute them after they “preach sermons that will talk about the candidates running for office” and “make a specific recommendation,” with the hope that the issue goes to court and the tax code amendment is determined to be in violation of the First Amendment.

But could the “Alliance Defending Freedom” pastors be opening up to larger questions regarding a wide array of tax exemptions should this case go to go court? Is the government using the tax code and this amendment as it now to remain objective or marginalize American religious institutions? Watch the “Real News” panel Thursday parse both sides of this story as well as discuss how religous insitutitions have already had an effect on partisan politics as the law stand now:

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Comments (7)

MiddleAmericaMS
Posted on September 23, 2012 at 11:54am
Why do conservatives feel that they can so blatantly break the law?

Especially a mass crime to illegally effect an election?

More evidence that conservatives do not believe in separation of church & state, as well as fair elections.

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FRAMMER66
Posted on September 21, 2012 at 9:48am
WINEPRESS PROJECT nock nock nock who iz there ? this iz hell ! hell who ? this iz hell’z & im on my way 2 heaven’z WINEPRESS project-iz 4 r kid’z & 4 r high school’z new bank’s 4 r kid;z & 4 r high school’z 50/50 tax on all booze & smoke’s tax go 2 the new bank’s at every high school’z kid’z 4 freashman 4 softmore 4 junior 4 senior will b elected 8 girl’z & 8 boy’z 2 spend tax money on what they vote on WINEPRESS PROJECT-ACT-PROHOBITION 12-21-2012

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Chet Hempstead
Posted on September 21, 2012 at 6:56am
None of those are Obama’s Executive Orders. They were all signed by President Kennedy in 1962.

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GlintoftheScythe
Posted on September 21, 2012 at 6:30am
Black baptist churches have never been hindered by this law.

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loneindividual
Posted on September 21, 2012 at 1:58am
without religious institutions….we would have never had the American Revolution

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PutMoreOnMyPlate
Posted on September 21, 2012 at 1:26am
For once I agree with the IRS.

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Pigpen
Posted on September 21, 2012 at 12:22am
FINALLY, some members of the clergy with GUTS! I wish the teary-eyed old men who lead the LDS Church had this much courage. When the LGBT community started going after the LDS Church’s tax exempt status in retaliation over gay marriage, the LDS Church pulled in the reins on its members and told them to stop self-identifying that they were “Mormon” when or if they ever worked politically on the gay marriage issue in the public forum. HOORAY for the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants! At least THEY aren’t willing to flip flop anymore! As for us “courageous” Mormons, hey, if you got lawyers like the Holocaust victims’ family members got lawyers, then we guess you don’t need baptism by proxy after all…

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