Source: The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
Wire Service: RNS
http://pewforum.org/news/display.php?NewsID=14786
A Wisconsin pastor has challenged the Internal Revenue Service by writing an open letter that criticizes rules against ministers getting too political in their pulpits.
In a full-page advertisement published in The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday (Jan. 16), Pastor Kenneth Taylor of Calvary Assembly of God in Algoma, Wis., dared the IRS to investigate a November 2006 sermon he preached about faith and elections.
"The clergy of every church, synagogue, temple and other religious group in the country should be able to preach freely, without the IRS looking over their shoulders and parsing every word," said Taylor.
"That kind of government intrusion into religious assemblies is what dictatorships do, not democracies."