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Andy Birkey of the Minnesota Independent has a round up of Sunday’s Pulpit Initiative in which a group encouraged pastors to endorse candidates from the pulpit.
Birkey writes:
Americans United for the Separation of Church and State filed formal complaints with the IRS on Monday targeting six churches that violated an IRS rule stipulating that churches that take advantage of the IRS’ tax breaks need to refrain from partisan politics or else pay their share of taxes.
Americans United identified the six churches based on media reports.
The churches were in Minnesota, Georgia, California, Wisconsin and Oklahoma.
The New Mexico Independent wrote about the Pulpit Initiative last week and its author — the Arizona-based Alliance Defense Fund — which encouraged pastors to pointedly endorse political candidates this past Sunday. In turn, ADF promised to provide participating churches with attorneys who would defend all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court what ADF says is the pastors’ First Amendment right to “speak freely” from the pulpit.
The Independent attended churches on Sunday and heard no endorsements from the pulpit. But it did hear some political talk.
