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Thursday, November 17, 2005

CBS News | Church Ready To Fight IRS | November 17, 2005 02:04:16

CBS News | Church Ready To Fight IRS | November 17, 2005 02:04:16: "Church Ready To Fight IRS

PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 16, 2005
At the heart of All Saints Episcopal Church's battle with the IRS is a 2004 sermon entitled 'If Jesus debated Senator Kerry and President Bush.' (CBS)

(CBS) It was a fiery sermon, aimed far beyond the Sunday parishioners.

'The IRS Agents are welcome in our pews,' Rev. J. Edwin Bacon says during a recent sermon, but adds, 'they are not welcome in our pulpit.'

The reason, CBS News correspondent Sandra Hughes reports is the Internal Revenue Service is taking on the popular and liberal All Saints Episcopal church in a fight for its very survival. "

Thursday, November 17, 2005

CBS News | Church Ready To Fight IRS | November 17, 2005 02:04:16

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