Complaint: Iowa Churches Campaign Against Judges

The Des Moines Register reports on complaints that a network of churches in Iowa are improperly campaigning to oust judges in November's election. Americans United for the Separation of Church and State of Washington, D.C., alleges in a letter filed Thursday that...

Interfaith Group Questions Fort Bragg Event

The Interfaith Alliance sent a letter to Army Secretary John McHugh, in response to the news that Fort Bragg hosted a major evangelical Christian concert last week.  Welton Gaddy asks the Secretary to investigate the incident and prevent similar events from...

Is a Tax Rule a Government Takeover? Um, No.

ADF Senior Counsel Erik Stanley, competing for a gold medal in hyperbole, says IRS regulations prohibiting tax-exempt organizations from campaigning for political candidates amounts to a government takeover of churches. Groups like Americans United that support this...

AU Calls on IRS to Investigate “Pulpit Sunday” Church

It will be a while before we know whether the IRS will open inquiries into any of the churches that participated in "Pulpit Sunday", endorsing political candidates from the pulpit, placing their tax exempt status in jeopardy. Americans United has already...