Godless Americans PAC: Action Alert re: House of Worship Free Speech Act

[Ian David]

Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:25:54 -0000
From: "gampacannounce" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Alert: Houses of Worship Free Speech Restoration Act of 2005 (H.R. 235)


Houses of Worship Free Speech Restoration Act of 2005 (H.R. 235)

Although the title of this proposed legislation introduced on
January 4, 2005 by Rep. Jones (R-NC) suggests restoring the free
speech rights of inanimate buildings, its real objective is to
politicize religious organizations through elimination of a specific
code of the Internal Revenue Service.

Organizations that benefit from charitable organization status are
exempt from federal taxes. Those charitable organizations are
allowed to engage political activities such as endorsement of
candidates or planks of political parties, but they do so at the
cost of their federal tax exemption. This legislation will carve out
an exception for religious organizations. This legislation died in
the last Congress and with your help, we can kill it in the 109th
Congress.

Take action:

http://www.gampac.org/
http://capwiz.com/godlessamericans/home/

To contact GAMPAC, please go here:

http://www.godlessamericans.org/paccontactus.php

[Tux]

1. If it goes through

Ministers can tell the clt members who to vote for. We need an act to remind ministers why churchs exist in the first place. THose Christians need to ask themselves, "Would Jesus worship in a church or hold a rally?"