Christian Pastors vs. the IRS- Religious Freedom- Pt 2 of 3

This is Part 2 of 3 of my legal analysis of the news story featured here: http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0926/p03s02-uspo.html

A group of Pastors want to challenge the IRS rule that a church cannot support or oppose a political candidate and keep its tax exempt status. But, first they actually have to violate the rule and have the IRS enforce it against them. Why? Watch and find out. :)

You can see many of my other legal analyses of the news here:

http://nationalparalegal.edu/lectures/takeonnews/news.asp

Please feel free to comment but please keep it civil.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• IRS
• Pastors
• Christian
• tax
• exempt
• 501(c)(3)
• standing
• religious
• freedom

[sh76us]

There's nothing unethical about what the attorneys are doing. These are not criminal statutes. They are engineering a test case in order to be able to challenge the underlying law. It's a tactic that's used all the time.

[BenAliGtor]

I can't wait until the Federal courts affirm the right of the IRS to deny tax exempt status to these occupational religionists who defy the law. Moreover, if any attorney from the "Alliance Legal Defense Fund" is found to have encouraged anyone to violate the law, in direct violation of the legal canons of ethics, my hope is that others will file complaints against them with their respective state bar orgs. Prison for these "pastors", and disbarment of their lawyers, would be true justice.