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Thousands of conservative Christians gathered on Independence Mall in Philadelphia to pray for the future of the United States in the weeks before the presidential election.



Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson and Family Research Council president Tony Perkins topped a full day of speakers at "The America for Jesus 2012" prayer rally.




Robertson, a former Republican candidate for president, called the election important, but didn't mention either major political party or candidate by name.




"I don't care what the ACLU says or any atheists say. This nation belongs to Jesus, and we're here today to reclaim his sovereignty," said Robertson, 82, who founded the Christian Coalition and Christian Broadcasting Network, and ran for president in 1988.




Organizers plan another prayer rally Oct. 20 in Washington, D.C., two weeks before President Barack Obama faces Republican Mitt Romney in the presidential election.




Perkins asked the crowd to pray for elected officials including Obama. "We pray that his eyes will be open to the truth," Perkins said.




A number of event organizers, though, have been vocal critics of the Democratic president.
Steve Strang, the influential Pentecostal publisher of Charisma magazine, which was distributed at the rally, recently wrote ithat America is under threat from a "radical homosexual agenda."



He also said Obama "seems to be moving toward some form of European socialism."




Speaker Cindy Jacobs blamed a mysterious Arkansas bird-kill last year on Obama's repeal of the policy known as "don't ask, don't tell," which allows gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military.




Speakers throughout the day condemned abortion, gay marriage and population control as practiced by Planned Parenthood.



Christian rock music filled the historic mall as speakers challenged the crowd to overcome the seven deadly sins...






http://www.sacbee.com/2012/09/29/4866123/thousands-pray-for-us-at-america.html#storylink=cpy
 
Tax them for the political organizations they are...they're telling their 'flocks' how to vote as well. There are even some wingnut employers that are threatening their employees with repercussions if they don't vote a certain way....how would they know?...but it's harassment and has to be against the law. All while Glenn Beck preaches eliminationist nationalism ala Germany 1930's...these are the self proclaimed 'saviors of our constitution'...LMAO....
 
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Baptist Pastor Mark Harris stood before his flock in North Carolina on Sunday and joined hundreds of other religious leaders in deliberately breaking the law in an election-year campaign that tests the role of churches in politics.

By publicly backing candidates for political office from the pulpit, Harris and nearly 1,500 other preachers at services across the United States were flouting a law they see as an incursion on freedom of religion and speech.

Under the U.S. tax code, non-profit organizations such as churches may express views on any issue, but they jeopardize their favorable tax-exempt status if they speak for or against any political candidate.

"Pulpit Freedom Sunday" has been staged annually since 2008 by a group called the Alliance Defending Freedom.

Its aim is to provoke a challenge from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service in order to file a lawsuit and have its argument out in court.

The event has grown steadily in size, but the IRS has yet to respond - even though the pastors tape their sermons and mail them to the agency.

Now in an election year, where a few swing states - including North Carolina - will be crucial, political analysts say pastors campaigning from the pulpit could have an impact.

Critics say the movement threatens the U.S. constitutional principle of separation of church and state and makes pastors look like political operatives rather than neutral spiritual leaders.

"When the church further divides the country, where's the win in that?" asked Reverend C. Welton Gaddy, president of the Interfaith Alliance, and an opponent of "Pulpit Freedom Sunday."

It has grown steadily in size, with just 33 pastors taking part in 2008, rising to 539 last year and to a record 1,477 this year.







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hazlnut said:
Revoke tax exempt status.
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Marcus Owens, a partner with law firm Caplin & Drysdale and former head of the IRS division that oversees tax exempt organizations, cited a 2009 case as a turning point.


In that case, the agency took action against James Hammond, pastor of the Living Word Christian Center in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, after he endorsed Republican Michele Bachmann.



The move led to a challenge of the IRS' audit procedure for churches, which the agency lost, and since then there have been no publicly known examples of it taking action against churches.



In its latest annual report, the IRS indicated it planned to examine allegations of political intervention by pastors.



But experts who spoke to Reuters said they do not expect the agency to move against Pulpit Freedom Sunday this year, chiefly because of the absence of a new audit procedure for churches.


"If the IRS wanted to get serious about this, there are already plenty of blatant violations they could pursue," said Rob Boston of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a Washington-based group that monitors and informs the IRS about tax-code violations.




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Haiku said:
Religious politics undermining our democracy.
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Isn't Obama supposedly waging "war on Christians"?

Funny how "Pulpit Freedom Sunday" started when a Black man was running for president.
 
That's how it is with bigots...notice how these followers of the 'king of peace' are always spouting hate?
 
Yes, of course, and when Jesus blesses them it's with money! You can tell how pure a person is by how rich they are.
 
Haiku said:
Yes, of course, and when Jesus blesses them it's with money! You can tell how pure a person is by how rich they are.
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If God provides, why does the IRS have to grant churches tax-exempt status and give donors a deduction?
 
Haiku said:
It's God's will...that's how God expresses himself.
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By subsidizing churches and "charitable" donations while the deficit swells and taxes are at their lowest level in decades?

Truly, God works in mysterious ways.
 
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