Monday, September 24, 2012

Pastors pledge to defy IRS, preach politics from pulpit ahead of election

FoxNews.com via Behind the Black blog

“We’re hoping the IRS will respond by doing what they have threatened,” he said. “We have to wait for it to be applied to a particular church or pastor so that we can challenge it in court. We don’t think it’s going to take long for a judge to strike this down as unconstitutional.”

Yep, that old free speech bugaboo strikes again.  Funny how the government is on the wrong side of this issue recently.  For instance, take the forced funding of contraception which goes against Catholic beliefs.  Or the most recent criticism of a anti Muslim video that the administration is using for political cover for a failed security at the Libyan consulate.  The policy enforcement has an uncanny tendency to favor Democrats:

the IRS has always enforced this oppressive regulation very selectively. Black churches for example have been allowed to preach Democratic Party politics for decades, without any threats from the IRS.  ( behind the black blog)

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