IRS not enforcing rules on churches, politics

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36. Except many of us are awre that there are at least two major religious

Organizations that have preached to their congregations about who to vote for.

Also, Mormons and the Catholics have offered up huge amounts of monies for their campaign against Prop Eight here in California. And the church authorities have, in the case of the Roman Catholic Church, the bishops even tell candidates that they will be excommunicated if as a publicly elected official they will stand firm on the right of women to choose as they will regarding abortion. This is all very new. John F Kennedy was a Catholic and he was able to say, in a rather outspoken way, that he would represent the people in terms of what they had chosen as the laws of the country. And that he would respect the opinions of the Supreme Court. And no one threatened him with excommunication.