IRS investigates political activity of churches, non-profits

This is a status that must be eliminated. All religious organizations should be taxpayers, taxed as Corporations.

This scam has gone on long enough.

I am also still hung up on GWB. He is a murderer who has eroded our freedoms and destroyed our country. He should be locked up for life and never again allowed to see the light of day.

It wouldn't. That's not what the IRS was investigating.

"In the sermon, Regas did not instruct parishioners whom to support in the presidential election but said that Jesus would have told the president that his Iraq policies had failed."

If the statement he had made was simply that "Jesus would have believed that war is wrong" the IRS wouldn't have any interest. Once the speaker invokes a name (or position that refers to a political persona) then they are outside the bounds of tax exempt organizations. That is what the IRS is looking into.

Nevertheless, fishin I still think it's stupid and kind of scary to think that the government is getting so wrapped up in what people say in church. I can't count the times that my preacher talked about the lack of morals in our previous president; I sure I hope our little three room church on top of the hill in the woods with the population of 50 on a good day don't get investigated.

I have always found it amazing that Clinton was impeached for lying about a daliance with an intern whereas Bush has not been impeached while his lies have resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands.

Nickfun
You must not be a good christian or you would understand that sex is much worse than 2056 deaths.

Really Rabel? I sure as HELL hope you're joking! Let's also tack on the 150,000 Iraqi deaths. Not to mention the countless hundreds of thousands wounded. And the countless left homeless and the businesses destroyed and the priceless art work demolished. And I am a Buddhist. Sex is good - assuming it's good sex.

NickFun, I think he's being sarcastic.