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Move To Let Churches Engage In Partisan Politics Nixed
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff


Posted: June 16, 2004 2:16 pm. ET

(Washington) Legislation that would have allowed partisan political advocacy by churches and other houses of worship was axed in a House committee Wednesday.

The measure was contained in American Jobs Creation Act of 2004. If the provisions remained in the bill, houses of worship would have been allowed to participate in elections without losing their tax-exempt status - something that other tax exempt groups would continue not to be able to do.

Churches would have been allowed to use anti-gay issues to support candidates in ads and other means while, LGBT civil rights groups would be barred from doing anything to rebut the charges.

"Houses of worship have never been prohibited from and remain permitted to discuss and provide guidance on important issues of the day," said HRC President Cheryl Jacques. "But the provisions, which were stripped out, would have allowed religious tax-exempt groups privilege over others. Regardless of their ideology, tax-exempt groups should be treated fairly and equally under the law."


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