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Old November 29th 08, 01:37 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave,alt.religion.christian,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.politics.republicans,alt.news-media
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Default (OT) : How Liberals Define : The Separation of Church and State in America Today.]

"David Hartung" wrote in message
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On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:28:54 -0600, David Hartung
wrote:

It is patently wrong for a religious dominated person
to control public officials with threats and
retaliation. Immoral as hell, BTW
Why would it be more immoral for a "religious dominated person" to
control public officials with threats, and okay for a "non-religious
dominated person" to do so?

Constitutional proscriptions

There are no constitutional proscriptions against private relifios
organizations engaging in partisan political activity.

His network is (probably) tax exempt

So?


No Constitutional proscriptions per-se.. but there are specific laws about
tax exempt status and lobbying or political campaigning that are very clear
(and have been in existance for quite some time).

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p1828.pdf

See pp. 5-8 et.seq. especially.


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