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Mon, Oct 02 2006
Liberal left, religious right, defensive wrong?
We're used to hearing leaders say they're in trouble for doing the right thing, but now we have William J. Murray, president of the Religious Freedom Action Coalition, openly announcing his wrongdoing, in a Reuters new story:
Mr. Murray's web site, Rat Out A Church, calls individuals to fight political efforts that would keep conservative church pastors from using the pulpit to back political candidates who mirror the conservative views of the particular church. Mr. Murray's web site seems to be encouraging people to blow the whistle on what they believe to be liberal churches backing political candidates.
This whole tit-for-tat operation could be pushing all nonprofit organizations into a showdown with the IRS, which will probably result in the definition of a nonprofit organization being altered to hinder most, if not all, nonprofit organizations. Forget robbing Peter to pay Paul. Mr. Murray may manage to defrock Peter, draw first blood against Paul, send churches and other nonprofits to the poorhouse and anger left-wing and right-wing politicians alike. Mr. Murray says he believes that what he's doing is wrong. For that, taxpayers everywhere must certainly give him credit in his remarkable ability to state the obvious.
posted at: 07:26 | category: /Politics | link to this entry
We're used to hearing leaders say they're in trouble for doing the right thing, but now we have William J. Murray, president of the Religious Freedom Action Coalition, openly announcing his wrongdoing, in a Reuters new story:
I actually believe that what I'm doing with this is wrong, but I'm doing it in a defensive nature. Somebody has to defend the conservative churches and the only way to protect them is to attack the liberal churches.
Mr. Murray's web site, Rat Out A Church, calls individuals to fight political efforts that would keep conservative church pastors from using the pulpit to back political candidates who mirror the conservative views of the particular church. Mr. Murray's web site seems to be encouraging people to blow the whistle on what they believe to be liberal churches backing political candidates.
This whole tit-for-tat operation could be pushing all nonprofit organizations into a showdown with the IRS, which will probably result in the definition of a nonprofit organization being altered to hinder most, if not all, nonprofit organizations. Forget robbing Peter to pay Paul. Mr. Murray may manage to defrock Peter, draw first blood against Paul, send churches and other nonprofits to the poorhouse and anger left-wing and right-wing politicians alike. Mr. Murray says he believes that what he's doing is wrong. For that, taxpayers everywhere must certainly give him credit in his remarkable ability to state the obvious.
posted at: 07:26 | category: /Politics | link to this entry
