The national office for Americans United for Separation of Church and State has issued a press release about the IRS warning to the liberal church in California that had a guest sermon opposing the war in Iraq on the Sunday before the presidential election last year.
National AU faults the IRS for being inconsistent in applying the regulation that non-profits not "oppose or endorse candidates for public office." They question why the IRS permitted a sermon by Arkansas Baptist minister Ronnie Floyed to go unchallenged.
Peronally, I think the national office is calling this one a little too close. It appears to me that the national office interprets the law to mean that politicians should not be named in sermons (which I agree would be most prudent). They certainly cannot mean that political issues and public policies should not be addressed in sermons.
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