Writers; Diane Silver, Nancy Jane Moore, Pamela K. Taylor and Eleanor Arnason from the Kansas Web Lob "In this Moment: An Uncommon Blog of Hope and Politics" are gathering the news on Ks. A.G. Phill Kline's campaign juggernaut machine fleecing the wealthiest of the howling pentacostals' purses.
Now the women are reporting that a statement from other churches are opposing his methods.
Read some excerpts of the church leaders' statement, then click on to their fine web log. All from the "Kansas Blog Wire" at the top of every scroll on the left hand margin of the FCF:
EXCERPTS of THE STATEMENT from "MAINSTREAM VOICES OF FAITH"
It is evident that in his quest to garner contributions and votes from conservative, evangelical, and fundamentalist congregations, Kline has asked churches to walk dangerously close to the line drawn by the Internal Revenue Service that prohibits nonprofit organizations from supporting political candidates. [FCF - emphasis added.]
In fact, Kline has asked them to cross that line...
Does not asking pastors to identify the five members of their congregations with the deepest pockets and assembling groups of lay people to be campaign workers constitute a blatant violation of IRS Code Section 501(c)3?
The Attorney General of the State of Kansas, of all people, should know better.
[Also, below, an embedded link to the authors of the church statement. - FCF]
Other ministers and religious leaders can sign the statement by visiting the organization's web site.Mainstream Voices of Faith is a program of the MAINstream Coalition.
I will send up the complete statement tomorrow.
Read more about Phill's big, big problem at "In This Moment" click below:
Taking Back Kansas: Ministers condemn Phill Kline's church-based fundraising as idolatry
2 comments:
The STATE should have NO power over the CHURCH,
FREE SPEECH is its GOD GIVEN right!
Why not just throw the last 500 years or so out the window with it.
Papists killing Lutherans killing jews killing moselms killing another ... yeah the religions did a great job for so long might as well start over in caves clubbing each other over the size of our ear lobes.
Stupid superstitious fanatics.
At least a few of them have the sense now days to try and keep each other away.
Free speech my ass, just a bunch of bullies lording it over the weaker ones.
Now we have Christian Zionists meeting in the White House counseling bombs on Iran.
What a bunch of thick headed racist fools.
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