Just came home from church and we are furious!

[MineralMan]

96. It might, but probably not.

If a church includes something like that as a letter from a parishioner, which wasn't done in the newsletter in question, they'd be probably OK with the IRS. In this particular case, the church included it without any note or name, so it could easily be interpreted as an official communication. Trouble is that it's iffy, and probably wouldn't meet the IRS's criteria for action.

This kind of crap gets circulated everywhere by such organizations, and then appears in smaller newspapers as letters to the editor, with some local adding his or her name to it. It's the bane of LTTE editors everywhere. They publish a letter that they think is original, only to find out that everyone else is publishing the same chain letter. They hate them, mostly.

As soon as I saw the church bulletin, I recognized the letter, so I did a Google search for it, and found literally hundreds of hits on it. That means that it's on its way everywhere, and soon, you'll be seeing it wherever you go. Viral distribution.

The right is very good at that stuff, and they do it all the time. This one is timed to reach its peak right around the election. Watch for it in something you read soon.