On Sunday, a group of 100 preachers nationwide will step into the pulpit and say the only words they're forbidden by law from speaking in a church.Well, given that Obama just asked pastors to preach the virtues of Obamacare to their flock I'm not sure today's stunt will be considered illegal, or at the very least a violation of the tax code.
They plan to use the pulpit as a platform for political endorsements, flouting a federal law that threatens churches with the loss of their nonprofit status if they stray too far into partisan politics.
While other church and nonprofit leaders cringe at the deliberate mix of the secular and the religious, participants in the annual Pulpit Freedom Sunday protest hope this act of deliberate lawbreaking will lead to a change in the law.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
"Pulpit Freedom Day"
Some pastors plan to taunt the IRS from their pulpits today:
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