I thought pastors, ministers and such were prohibited from making Political statements from the pulpit or loose their not for profit status.
Sustain your statements or argument. I have a friend who is a pastor and politically they have to walk on egg shells when speaking from the pulpit.
Anonymous
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Liberals are exempt from the rules.
beta_hat
Why should any church have not-for-profit status? All churches are for-profit if you just re-define profits to include the income of the pastors and ministers. Anyone who has ever been to Vatican city knows that the Catholic Church, for one, is hardly a non-profit organization.
Aren't a lot of political advocacy groups technically not-for-profit?
icu812
because it's not against the tax code for churches to make political statements. It will only change a church's status if the Church endorse a specific candidate.
I know a church that had political stuff on their marquee and they didn't lose their status.
Anonymous
If that were true 75% of the churches in the south would lose their non-profit status.
Obviously this rule has been blatantly ignored for years.
livefree
Because all churches have done it and the law has not been upheld. It would be unfair to single out this church. The law needs to be upheld across the board.