...that's right...could it be?...SATANNN?!?!
So, according Jerry Falwell,
Hillary Clinton would motivate fundie voters to action more than a campaigning Beelzebub himself.
Well...isn't...that...special.
Follow me after the fold...
Apparently this observation was made by Falwell while attending the so called "Values Voter Summit" in Washington D.C., a conference put on by the country's leading fundiecons to rally the Christian soldiers for the upcoming
elections.
The Washington Briefing, to be held Sept. 22-24, will equip Christians for the 2006 election and beyond.
So what's wrong with a little political action among Christians you say? I'd say besides the conference speakers and attendies being the worst of the worst rabid fundie and slavering BSC-con wingnuttery, nothing.
Except for one teeny-tiny thing.
You see this BSC-con-conference is being sponsored by a little group called "FRC Action". FRC Action describes itself on it's own website as "the legislative action arm of the Family Research Council" and is a 501c(4) tax exempt, "non-profit education and lobbying organization". FRC action promoted this conference by the following methods...
FRC Action is hosting a complimentary breakfast for pastors on Friday, September 22 at the Omni. Please use the Pastor Registration Form to register or call 1-888-372-2284 and identify yourself as a pastor.
Bring church members/youth group on your church bus to Washington
An insert in your church bulletin
An article in your church's newsletter or bulletin
A flyer or buckslip inserted into appropriate mailings
Network with other pastors and churches
Distribute flyers to Christian bookstores
Christian radio talk shows in your area
Mention the event on your church's website and link your church's website to the event website
Huh? Bribing pastors with free omelets? Using churches as mechanisms for distributing political material and recuitment vehicle for a political action conferences? This is a blatent violation of these church's tax exempt status as 501c(3) organizations under the Internal Revenue Code.
Under the Internal Revenue Code, all section 501(c)(3) organizations are absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office. Contributions to political campaign funds or public statements of position (verbal or written) made on behalf of the organization in favor of or in opposition to any candidate for public office clearly violate the prohibition against political campaign activity. Violation of this prohibition may result in denial or revocation of tax-exempt status and the imposition of certain excise tax.
Of course all this is happening at the same time a liberal-church is being hounded by the IRS for a sermon discussing a hypothetical debate between Bush, Kerry and Jesus. But apparently sending church goers, recruited at church, using church resources, in the church bus, to a political action conference to hear Jerry the Loon compare Hillary Clenis to the Unholy Dark One and proclaim her worse, is apparently quite all right in the eyes of the IRS.
Every single one of these wingnut PAC's posing as churches should be stripped of their tax-exempt status. Period.