{"id":3894,"date":"2008-01-06T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-06T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ministers_who_support_edhuckabee_in_iowa_received_anonymous_warning_letters\/"},"modified":"2008-01-06T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-06T01:00:00","slug":"ministers_who_support_edhuckabee_in_iowa_received_anonymous_warning_letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=3894","title":{"rendered":"Ministers Who Supported Huckabee in Iowa Received Anonymous Warning Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iowa pastors who support Republican Mike Huckabee for president have received letters warning them that getting involved in politics could endanger the tax-exempt status of their churches.<\/p>\n<p>Several pastors who have publicly backed Huckabee, a Southern Baptist minister who has support from many evangelicals, said they have received the letters, which have no return address. They have arrived in the weeks leading to Thursday&#8217;s precinct caucuses.<\/p>\n<p>Two letters were sent to the Rev. Brad Sherman, of Solid Rock Christian Church in Coralville. The first arrived a couple weeks ago and warned that he could be prosecuted for his support of Huckabee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just laughed. No one lands in jail for this,&#8221; Sherman said. &#8220;Somebody is trying to intimidate Christians from getting involved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/ap\/080103\/huckabee_letters.html?.v=1\">Read the whole article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iowa pastors who support Republican Mike Huckabee for president have received letters warning them that getting involved in politics could endanger the tax-exempt status of their churches. Several pastors who have publicly backed Huckabee, a Southern Baptist minister who has<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=3894\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,114,108,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture","category-us-presidential-election-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}