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Former IRS Officials File a Complaint
Against Christian Lawyers

Three former Internal Revenue Service executives plan to file a complaint today against a coalition of Christian lawyers who they say are unethically encouraging pastors nationwide to talk about political candidates from the pulpit.

The complainants, including a former IRS commissioner, are challenging the Alliance Defense Fund for organizing Pulpit Freedom Sunday, set for Sept. 28. On that day, pastors have been asked to challenge IRS codes that bar tax-exempt charities such as churches from endorsing political candidates.

The Alliance Defense Fund, which champions conservative Christian causes, employs 40 attorneys and has trained 1,200 more.

"We believe the project of encouraging, of counseling, of assisting large numbers of churches to violate the tax law is a threat to the integrity of the tax system," said Marcus Owens, who was director of the IRS Exempt Organizations Division for 10 years.

http://www.yuricareport.com/Law%20%26%20Legal/ComplaintAgainstChristianLawyers.html

The Grandpa and the Cheerleader:

By Katherine Yurica

AKA Edith Earle Fonder (who can’t keep Eudora Welty’s observations to herself)

September 8, 2008

Well they tried. The poor old things! That grand old, old party—came limping into America’s homes with the grandpa and the beauty queen! They said, “Vote for us because we are not them!” (They meant of course, that they aren’t connected in any way, shape or form to the Democratic Party and all the millions and zillions of us who tend not to vote for conservatives who want to turn our tax money over to Halliburton and other entities of financial magnitude.)

Bless their hearts. They mean business—all the time. They can’t help it—they just love to make money, and give it to their favorite enterprises. (It’s called “faith-based initiatives” or “turnover” or something like that.) But back to the convention!

Wasn’t Cindy’s bright, bright green dress—er—noticeable? Admit it! Today’s Republicans know how to make Americans feel comfortable with them. They grab those war buttons they wear in their lapels and polish them till the little things shine brighter than a body’s face at noonday with the sun all over it. They ask not what you (and they) can give to our country but rather what our country can give to them! (Of course they’ve earned it—they are so clever and bright—they mostly ask just for menial things—like our votes—to put them in powerful offices!

I mean they are really nice folks. Underneath their hysteria—there’s real gentle folks hiding behind their eyebrows. It’s only certain subjects that set them off. It’s things like “sin” and degradation that curl their toes. They’re afraid that schoolteachers are going to turn their children into gays and lesbians with Harry Potter’s wand.

Then, when the scared American folks ask, “What are we going to do about it?”

“Never you mind,” says GOP Grandpa of the Year, “Vote for us Republicans and we’ll turn your kids ‘round in the U.S. Army and Marine Corp! We’ll make men of them—or they’ll die trying!”

(The GOP, which stands for “God’s Own Party,” is truly concerned and politically “with it!” I don’t know if you’ve noticed that or not. I just thought I should point it out!)

http://www.yuricareport.com/Campaign2008/How_McCain_Slew_McAble.html

Who Really Told McCain to Select Sarah Palin or Else?

September 3, 2008


Who Really Told McCain to Select Sarah Palin or Else?

McCain’s Effort to Woo Conservatives Is Paying Off


By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK


ST. PAUL — Moments after Senator John McCain announced his running mate — Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, an outspoken abortion opponent — his campaign sprang into action to fan flames of enthusiasm among his party’s demoralized conservative supporters.

At a lunch Friday in Minneapolis, two of his top advisers — Charlie Black, a veteran political operative, and Dan Coats, a former senator from Indiana — were extolling Ms. Palin’s virtues to about 150 influential evangelicals as evidence of Mr. McCain’s ideological commitments.

That night, at a larger gathering of Christian conservatives, the campaign sent Frank Donatelli, vice chairman of the Republican National Committee, to reinforce the message: Mr. McCain would be a “pro-life” president, which could make a crucial difference with two Supreme Court justices close to retirement. (Mr. McCain has said that he would appoint conservative jurists and run a “pro-life” administration but that abortion would not be a “litmus test” for judicial nominees.)

http://www.yuricareport.com/Campaign2008/WhoToldMcCainToSelectPalin%20.html


How to Trick Candidates Into Giving Themselves a Religious Test

September 6, 2008

Katherine Yurica



This note was added on September 16, 2008.

http://www.yuricareport.com/Campaign2008/HowDemocratsShouldAnswerRickWarren.html