Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Pastors in Trouble with the IRS

The IRS which has issuing a set of guidelines that bar electioneering on the Web by churches. Here are some churches who have gotten in trouble recently with the agency for it because watchdog groups have filed complaints.

The pastor of a church in Harlem, New York, James David Manning posted a sermon online calling Barak Obama a pimp and his mother a “trashy white woman”. The clip from Atlah World Ministries made the rounds on YouTube with more than 2 million hits.

A St. Petersburg televangelist put a sermon on his website calling a vote for Mitt Romney, who is a Mormon, a “vote for Satan”.

Maury Davis, pastor of a megachurch in Nashville called Cornerstone Church, told the congregation he wasn’t supposed to tell them he supported three members who were running for seats on the school board. He went on to name them and the video was posted on the church website.

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