Wisconsin Preacher Tells Members How To Vote

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4. Don't worry, we won't bomb them for talking politics. That's how they treated black churches:

Birmingham, Alabama, and the Civil Rights Movement in 1963



The 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing

The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham was used as a meeting-place for civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King, Ralph David Abernathy and Fred Shutterworth. Tensions became high when the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) became involved in a campaign to register African American to vote in Birmingham.

On Sunday, 15th September, 1963, a white man was seen getting out of a white and turquoise Chevrolet car and placing a box under the steps of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Soon afterwards, at 10.22 a.m., the bomb exploded killing Denise McNair (11), Addie Mae Collins (14), Carole Robertson (14) and Cynthia Wesley (14). The four girls had been attending Sunday school classes at the church.

Twenty-three other people were also hurt by the blast...

More at the link:

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/randall/birmingham.htm

The reason the IRS won't stop this is because churches can be used for good or evil. In the case mentioned in the OP, I find the hatemongers to be losers.