Reply #6: they pay no taxes.... but HB 235 will change all of that (last I heard it

[KaliTracy]

had 162 co-sponsors...)

which will give clergy (any clergy) the ability to play politics while they preach...

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This is the Part of the Bill (and a link to the Bill)

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.R.235 :

<snip> No member or leader of an organization described in section 501(q) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (as added by section 2) shall be prohibited from expressing personal views on political matters or elections for public office during regular religious services, so long as these views are not disseminated beyond the members and guests assembled together at the service. For purposes of the preceding sentence, dissemination beyond the members and guests assembled together at a service includes a mailing that results in more than an incremental cost to the organization and any electioneering communication under section 304(f) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 434(f)). Nothing in the amendment made by section 2 shall be construed to permit any disbursements for electioneering communications or political expenditures prohibited by the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971.</>


Hopefully, the uproar about this one little church will wake people up who were considering sponsoring the bill.... Hopefully, it won't get "passed through" without some sort of public scrutiny...