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flying_wahini

(6,646 posts)
Tue Aug 23, 2022, 04:14 PM Aug 2022

Florida Minister bringing candidates before congregation to endorse CRT and school districts.

and does it on camera…

[link:https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/violating-irs-rules-fl-church-endorses-right-wing-school-board-candidates/|


Last Sunday, Pastor Greg Peters of Parkview Church in Palm Coast, Florida brought on stage three candidates for the Flagler County School Board and urged his congregation to vote for all three in order to “flip” the district so it’s under conservative Christian control.

Endorsing political candidates is literally the one thing a non-profit/church cannot do if it wants to maintain its non-profit status with the IRS, but conservatives Christians have long believed the rules don’t apply to them, and the IRS has been too cowardly (or short-staffed) to go after them.

It’s Parkview Church (Florida) and his name is Greg Peters

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Florida Minister bringing candidates before congregation to endorse CRT and school districts. (Original Post) flying_wahini Aug 2022 OP
IRS..change his church's tax status Deuxcents Aug 2022 #1
I wish they would! Time for churches that preach politics shouldn't qualify as churches. flying_wahini Aug 2022 #2
This is dangerous EnergizedLib Aug 2022 #3

EnergizedLib

(1,898 posts)
3. This is dangerous
Thu Aug 25, 2022, 01:22 PM
Aug 2022

See the can of worms Dobbs and Kennedy opened this summer?

As an atheist, I’m very much for the free exercise of religion. I an, however, staunchly against the amalgamation of church and state, a principle I believe to be implied by the First Amendment.

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