Friday, May 06, 2005

Just Sayin'

I'm thinking about the church in the post below (follow the link). I'm listening to this guy David Richardson from East Waynesville, NC. He was a member of that church, one of its council of elders, or whatever it's called. And what he was sayinng was so completely and exactly the exact thing that you would say if you wanted the curch to lose its tax-exempt status, it was weird. If you read some of the IRS and tax-lawyer types who posted on Kos (yeah - Kos has so many readers that no matter what specialty you need, someone's bound to have it) about this story, they all said the same thing: that the only way to lost the tax-exempt status is if a church campaigns for a particular candidate or tries to influence an election. And that's exactly what this guy was saying. That back during the election the pastor told them they had to vote for Bush or repent, and that this week they had a special meeting where the pastor said that anyone who was not willing to pledge to vote as he told them was out, and that it was to be a political church from now on.
I don't know, it just fit so exactly. And the station that first aired the story was a Sinclair channel. I just wonder. It just weird. Like, Karl Rove weird.
I think this is going to be bad, somehow.

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