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Pulpit Freedom Sunday: Complaints filed against churches that endorsed McCain

By Andy Birkey | 09.29.08 | 2:46 pm

An initiative spurred by the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), a religious right legal outfit affiliated with James Dobson’s Focus on the Family, has prompted complaints to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), including one against Minnesota’s Warroad Community Church. The…

Dobson-bred ‘Pulpit Initiative’ to flout IRS ban on church political endorsements seems to be failing

By Andy Birkey | 09.25.08 | 2:28 pm

It must have seemed an attractive idea at the time. But a much-heralded push to organize mass violations of an IRS ban on political endorsements in churches seems to be attracting few takers. And the IRS has already pledged to review complaints about any churches that do participate.

The preachers’ revolt: Dobson-affiliated group encourages breaking the law, endorsing candidates from the pulpit

By Andy Birkey | 09.11.08 | 11:21 am

An Arizona-based front group for the religious empire of James (Focus on the Family) Dobson, the Alliance Defense Fund, is encouraging en masse violation of the IRS rule that prohibits clergy from endorsing political candidates. They’re asking ministers of kindred spirit across the country to endorse presidential candidates on Sunday, September 28.