http://www.allsaints-pas.org/site/PageServer?pagename=IRS_Exam_splashRector Ed Bacon delivered a powerful sermon this morning
at All Saints Church in Pasadena. The video of the sermon
will be on the website this afternoon. The press conference is at 1:00 pm pacific time
in the rector's forum at All Saints. There were e-mails from the IRS to
the Justice Dept. All Saints demands an apology.
On September 10, the Church received a letter from the IRS that simultaneously closed the dormant examination—without challenge to the Church’s tax-exempt status and without the audit ever actually taking place —and concluded without explanation that the sermon in question constituted intervention in the 2004 Presidential election. All Saints Church’s Rector, the Rev. J. Edwin Bacon, Jr. expressed great concern about the IRS closing letter and its implications for freedom of the pulpit at All Saints Church...(read the entire press release)
Read the Press Kit:
1) All Saints' Press Release, Sunday, Sept. 23, 2007
2) The IRS' Closing Letter to All Saints Church
3) All Saints' Letter to the IRS Commissioner, Friday, Sept. 21, 2007
4) All Saints' Letter to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, Friday, Sept. 21, 2007
5) New Supporting Documents Attached to the 9/21/07 Letter to the IRS Commissioner, including material received via a Freedom Of Information Act request
6) A Chronology of Inclusion At All Saints Church
7) Transcript of "If Jesus Debated President Bush and Senator Kerry," a sermon delivered by the Rev. Dr. George F. Regas on Sunday, Oct. 31, 2004.
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