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Did He Endorse A Candidate From The Pulpit?

07/22/04
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You might want to tell your pastor to be careful this election year. A liberal watchdog group is filing complaints against churches for allegedly endorsing candiates.

At First Baptist Church in Springdale, Arkansas, Pastor Ronnie Floyd showed a picture of President Bush and said, "One candidate believes that marriage is a God-ordained institution between a man and a woman and has proposed a constitutional amendment protecting marriage." With a photograph of John Kerry on the screen, he said, "The other candidate was one of only 14 U.S. Senators to vote against the Defense Of Marriage Act in 1996."

Floyd later urged the congregation to go to tables in the church and register to vote "by the authority of God's Word, Christian values, convictions and beliefs. In other words, we must vote God."

Americans United For Separation of Church and State filed an I.R.S complaint accusing the minister of violating tax rules endorsing candidates. They've filed a similar complaint against a church in Boston whose pastor allegedly endorsed Kerry as "the next President of The United States."

By the way, it is NOT a violation of the I.R.S code for your church to have voter registration days. But it is a violation for a church to endorse candidates.


 
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