Video: Tony Perkins for politically-driven pastors to test (if not run afoul) tax exempt status

It seems like every year that I track this stuff, the anti-LGBT activists gets more assured of their "right" both act like political activists from the pulpit and maintain their tax exempt status. This year, one of the conservative movement's most prominent voices is essentially telling pastors that they can politicize all they want and the IRS can't do anything about it:





If they want a true scandal involving the IRS, then I encourage the conservative movement to very much buy into this track....

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Published on July 31, 2014 06:01
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Bob H Their nonprofit status is not a given, not explicit in the Constitution but by virtue of a 1970 Supreme Court ruling, Walz v. Tax Commission of the City of New York 397 U.S. 664. Even then, the Court meant it to enable charitable work, as subsequent rulings made plain (see, e.g., Bob Jones University v. United States, 461 U.S. 574 (1974) or Jimmy Swaggart Ministries v. Board of Equalization of California, 493 U.S. 378, 387 (1990). (I should know, I co-wrote a law review article on the exemption).

They're asking for trouble if they want the courts to re-open this issue.


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