Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Times Recorder - www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com - Zanesville, OH-All Saints: Has IRS gone too far?

Times Recorder - www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com - Zanesville, OH: "
CHARLES HAYNES

Taking pleasure in the pain of others isn't the Christian thing to do. But conservative churches may be forgiven for feeling a bit of schadenfreude after the revelation this month that the Internal Revenue Service is threatening to revoke the tax-exempt status of All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, Calif. - one of the nation's largest liberal congregations.

Many evangelicals have been complaining for years that IRS regulations muzzle free speech of clergy from the pulpit. Now that people on the left are stirred up by the IRS threat against All Saints, people on the right are hoping to find common cause in challenging the IRS."

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