The question is: can a church's website link to a political activist group that endorses candidates?
For example, I know a church can't link to political candidates to endorse them
However, can they link to a website that links to political candidates they want to endorse?
Does one degree of separation protect their tax exempt status?
For example, can Pembroke Assembly of "God" link to Article 8 Alliance, which campaigns for and against candidates, and lobbies for the impeachment of particular judges?
http://www.pembrokeassemblyofgod.org /
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The Assemblies of God
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Southern N.E. District
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Teen Challenge
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Honorbound Men
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Women's Ministries
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Article 8 Alliance {emphasis mine} *
Pentecostal Evangel
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Contemporary Christian Music Magazine
That's the legal question.
That ignores the moral and ethical question, which is of all the things that the bible teaches, of all the things that christianity supposedly stands for, and of all the alleged "sins" that god and jesus say we should oppose to-- out of all of those, why is it that Pembroke Assembly of "God" chose to pick one-- just one-- of those things to worry their crazy little fundie heads about?
Of all the dilemmas and moral crises and troubles in all the world... they picked gays?
Poverty... hunger... drunk drivers... homelessness... war... cancer... diabetes... out of so many things they could have worried about, they picked.... gays?
Perhaps someone at Pembroke Assembly of "God" doth protest too much. Some people say.
See also:
Anti-Gay Pembroke Assembly of God Endorses Healey / Hillman?
More:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=158&topic_id=10466&mesg_id=10466