Church to IRS: "See you in court!"
All Saints Church, an Episcopal congregation in Pasadena, Calif., will see the Internal Revenue Service in a higher court.
The IRS ordered the 3,500-member church to hand over all documents it produced in 2004 mentioning political candidates (specifically, presidential candidates George W. Bush and John Kerry, I presume). What prompted the invasion of free speech and free religion (and the practice thereof)? A 2004 sermon in which a former church rector outlined some of the problems Jesus would have with American foreign policy, pre-emptive war and a general lack of caring for the poor in the United States.
The church has declined to give the government the information it seeks and said in a recent statement that its current pastor won't be testifying before IRS officials on Oct. 11.