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Saturday, September 23, 2006

Who Would Jesus Audit?

Aired 9/22/06 Who Would Jesus Audit?

It took the rest of the Nation a while to catch on to the story in Pasadena CA about the church being threatened with the loss of their tax-exempt status because of an anti-war speech made a few days before the 2004 election, but it was strange that it did on the day after a massive political rally by the tax-exempt arm of Dr James Dobson's media empire in which he exhorted to the audience the dire consequences of the Republicans losing control of Congress.

Exactly why All-Saints' sermon was 'political' and Dobson's was 'not political' is beyond me.

(One thing worth noting is that losing tax-exempt status would be devastating to a church. Most folks realize that it would mean that their donations would not be deductible. But that is just the start of it. The church itself would have to pay income tax on all those donations. Moreover it is quite likely that the church would have to pay property taxes on all of its land and facilities.)

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