{"id":5002,"date":"2011-10-12T19:59:25","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T00:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=791"},"modified":"2011-10-12T19:59:25","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T00:59:25","slug":"irs-should-investigate-dallas-church-for-endorsing-rick-perry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/12\/irs-should-investigate-dallas-church-for-endorsing-rick-perry\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS Should Investigate Dallas Church For Endorsing Rick Perry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Americans United&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Americans United for Separation of Church and State today asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate a Dallas church whose pastor has been posting videos of himself endorsing Texas Gov. Rick Perry on the church\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s website.<\/p>\n<p>Americans United says Pastor Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Church has run afoul of federal tax law. AU notes that Jeffress has the right to offer a personal endorsement of Perry but that he may not put these endorsements on his tax-exempt church\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s website.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Pastor Jeffress is trying to do an end-run around the law,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The IRS should put a stop to it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 8, Jeffress appeared at a Religious Right gathering in Washington, D.C., called the Values Voter Summit to introduce Perry. During the introduction, Jeffress praised Perry as the best GOP candidate and explained why he believes Perry deserves support. <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.au.org\/media\/press-releases\/archives\/2011\/10\/irs-should-investigate-dallas.html\">continued here<\/a>. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Americans United&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[388,280],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1iG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}