The Letter of the Law
BY Sarah Laskow | February 13, 2008
The Reverend Wiley Drake, a high-profile pastor in the Southern Baptist Convention, says that the Internal Revenue Service is investigating him for using church stationery to publicize his endorsement of Republican Mike Huckabee, the Associated Press reports. Churches can lose their tax-exempt status if their officials endorse political candidates.
Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, a nonpartisan group whose “Project Fair Play” aims to “stop illegal church electioneering,” filed a complaint against Drake with the IRS.
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