{"id":45247,"date":"2014-07-22T21:30:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T21:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/irs_agrees_to_monitor_churches_for_electioneering\/"},"modified":"2014-07-22T21:30:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T21:30:54","slug":"irs_agrees_to_monitor_churches_for_electioneering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45247","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) IRS agrees to monitor churches for electioneering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Internal Revenue Service said it will monitor churches and other houses of worship for electioneering in a settlement reached with an atheist group.<\/p>\n<p>The settlement was reached Friday (July 18) in federal court in Madison, Wis., where the initial lawsuit was filed in 2012 by the Freedom from Religion Foundation, a Wisconsin-based atheist advocacy group that claims 20,000 members nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>The suit alleged the IRS routinely ignored complaints by the FFRF and others about churches promoting political candidates, issues or proposed legislation. As part of their tax-exempt status, churches and other religious groups are prohibited from engaging in partisan political activity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2014\/07\/21\/irs-agrees-monitor-churches-electioneering\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internal Revenue Service said it will monitor churches and other houses of worship for electioneering in a settlement reached with an atheist group. The settlement was reached Friday (July 18) in federal court in Madison, Wis., where the initial<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45247\">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":[39,40,579,149,114,151,108,587,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-churchstate-matters","category-economy","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-taxes","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45247","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=45247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}