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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.