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TIME Magazine’s Michael Scherer reports that pro-Huckabee pastors in Iowa have received anonymous letters warning that IRS rules against church-based politicking will land them “in the slammer.” Read one of the purported letters here. It’s as yet unclear who’s behind the letters.
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posted January 2, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Well…with the mis-spelling that I saw, it could have been President Bush………..Arrogant bunker mentality, indeed!
It was probably a Gibsonite transforming the ‘War on Christmas’ theme to a ‘War on Christians’ theme.
posted January 3, 2008 at 11:41 am
Boy, the Romney camp sure is scared of Huck to go this far.
posted January 3, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Ed Rollins maybe?
posted January 4, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Were they “threats” or “reminders”?
Just aasking.
posted January 6, 2008 at 7:28 pm
This kind of politicking at churches is pretty common. They did the same thing every election time at my former church, The Church on the Way. Jack Hayford was usually careful, but many of the other pastors on staff there weren’t. I was there when one of them actually publicly stated from the platform during a service that he didn’t see how anyone could call themself a Christian and be a Democrat! People were upset and some even got up and left the service. Wednesday Night prayer meetings were more of a political campaign than a spiritual gathering. Prayers were invoked for certain politicians in the running but not for others. I was there the night we were all told to hold hands across the aisles to pray for all those in the running, but when we did the pastor asked God to let so-in-so win. That was the night I walked out. I was disgusted at being manipulated and lied to to make me pray for a certain candidate to win! It was pretty obvious the Powers in charge were Republican and felt we all should be too.
posted January 7, 2008 at 2:18 pm
I don’t like the guy, I don’t trust the guy, and I think his approach to religion and politics is warped.
That being said, I still think these are sleazy stunts and whoever is behind it should be discovered and dealt with – publicly. Any candidate that must resort to selaze of this sort is certainly not worthy of anyone’s support. And if a candidates supporters are so unsure their candidate can win that they have to do things like this – then they need to re-think their support.
You can bet Huckabee knows the IRS is keeping a sharpshooters eye on him and how he handles his campaign and churches. If he does not know and accept this, then he is too naive or too out of touch.
posted January 13, 2008 at 11:10 am
I thought for a second they were receiving yummy, anonymous TREATs.