It's About Time

One thing that has really ticked me off over the past few years is how radical right-wing Fundamental Christian organizations are openly supporting theocratic candidates or otherwise overtly engaging in extreme right-wing political activities while maintaining tax-exempt status. Well, someone is finally doing something about this (from Raw Story):

The progressive Washington ethics watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has filed an IRS complaint against a network of church leaders aiding Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum (R-PA), alleging that the group aided the senator's re-election campaign efforts in violation of federal law. . . .

According to an article by David D. Kirkpatrick appearing in the March 21, 2006 edition of The New York Times, the first training get-out-the-vote session set up by the Pennsylvania Pastors Network took place on March 6, 2006 and included a videotaped message from Senator and candidate for the United States Senate, Rick Santorum (R-PA). According to the article, after the videotape of Sen. Santorum was played, copies of the Senator’s book, It Takes a Family, were handed out.

One of the speakers at the meeting, the Reverend Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, emphasized the importance of control of the Senate in the event of vacancies on the Supreme Court stating, “[t]his particular president needs the kind of support that he has today but might not necessarily have after 2006.”