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Huckabee: Churches
Should Consider
Dropping Tax-Exempt
Status

As reported by Newsmax

Churches should consider giving up
their tax-exempt status if keeping it
means allowing the government to tell
them what to say, says Mike Huckabee.

The former
Arkansas gover-
nor, GOP presiden-
tial candidate, and
current Fox News
talk show host also
is an ordained
Baptist minister.
He made the com-
ment on Monday during a minister’s
conference in Houston, Texas, ahead of
the annual Southern Baptist Convention
meeting.

“Keep your deductions. Keep the
exemptions. We stand more faithful
with what God would have us to say,
and we choose our freedom more than
our financial benefit,” Huckabee said,
according to Associated Baptist Press.
Recent revelations that the Internal
Revenue Service has been targeting
groups that are conservative and pro-
Israel should be an alert to people of
faith, Huckabee said. The Thomas More
Society has complained that IRS offi-
cials asked anti-abortion groups in
Texas and Iowa about the content of
their prayers when the groups sought
tax-exempt status.

“You may not clap real loud for this,
but at least hear me out and think about
it and pray about it,” Huckabee told the
pastors. “I think we need to recognize
that it may be time to quit worrying so
much about the tax code and start think-
ing more about the truth of the living
God.”

excerpted

http://unregisteredbaptistfellowship.org/index.php/trumpet-doc/trumpet-july-sept-2013