From: "Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Karen Carter" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Your church is under attack!
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 21:07:30 +0000
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<td width="585" align="right" valign="middle" class="date">WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 2006 </td>
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<td>Dear Karen,<br><br>
<P>Don't allow the Internal Revenue Service to close your church and silence your religious leaders!</P>
<P>Recently, I sent you an email to inform you of a vague, half-century-old law which enables the IRS to shut down your house of worship.</P>
<P>This obscure law is being used by Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AU) and others to <U>intimidate churches into silence on moral issues</U>.</P>
<P><A href="http://tracking.aclj.org/cgi-bin/track.cgi?11-5742-1605457-26505-https://www.aclj.org/petition/Default.aspx?SC=3155&AC=DNE0604018&[log in to unmask]&guid=2B28CE6A-E7EA-4FA8-BEBA-C07E25AF52D1" target=_blank TRACK="true">Join our nationwide campaign to give our religious leaders back their voice for morality by adding your name to our Houses of Worship FREE SPEECH PETITION.</A>
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<P>It all began in 1954 when then-Senator Lyndon B. Johnson sought political retribution against an opponent who was assisted in his campaign by two non-profit organizations.</P>
<P>As a bill to revise the tax code was being debated on the floor of the Senate, LBJ pushed a little-noticed amendment that barred all tax-exempt groups - including churches - from participating in political activity.</P>
<P><STRONG>The penalty: loss of tax-exempt status. A heavy price to pay for exercising their free speech rights.</STRONG> </P>
<P>Today, churches in America ARE paying the price. They are threatened with lawsuits and the revocation of their tax-exempt status. Intimidation is silencing our ministers on crucial topics like abortion and same-sex marriage!</P>
<P><U>In other words - churches are putting their tax-exempt status at risk whenever they speak out on issues of the day</U>.</P>
<P><U>We must put an end to this</U>! This is a blatant violation of our First Amendment free speech rights.</P>
<P>But we need your signature to help stop this injustice and protect our ministers and houses of worship. <A href="http://tracking.aclj.org/cgi-bin/track.cgi?11-5742-1605457-26505-https://www.aclj.org/petition/Default.aspx?SC=3155&AC=DNE0604018&[log in to unmask]&guid=2B28CE6A-E7EA-4FA8-BEBA-C07E25AF52D1" target=_blank TRACK="true">Add your name to our online FREE SPEECH PETITION and make your voice heard!</A>
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<P>Religious leaders not only have a constitutional right to address the moral issues of the day, many believe they also have a <STRONG><EM>responsibility</EM></STRONG> to do so - especially in the context of political campaigns.</P>
<P>This country has a rich and welcomed history of turning to churches and houses of worship during the debates of the great moral issues of the day.</P>
<P>Why have we put the IRS - which is designed to collect revenue for the general treasury - in the position of being the speech police?</P>
<P>At the ACLJ, we have an important opportunity to correct the errors of the past. That's why the Houses of Worship Free Speech Restoration Act is so vital! <U>But we must have your help</U>.</P>
<P><A href="http://tracking.aclj.org/cgi-bin/track.cgi?11-5742-1605457-26505-https://www.aclj.org/petition/Default.aspx?SC=3155&AC=DNE0604018&[log in to unmask]&guid=2B28CE6A-E7EA-4FA8-BEBA-C07E25AF52D1" target=_blank TRACK="true">Lend your name to our FREE SPEECH PETITION today.</A>
Your name will be added to tens of thousands of others in this nationwide campaign. With it, we will stand together and protect the rights given to us by our Founding Fathers.</P>
<P>I encourage you to forward this email on to family members, friends, and church members as well to get the word out on this issue!</P>
<P>Thank you for your immediate action to further the cause of freedom.</P>
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