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Sun Oct 14, 2012, 05:18 PM Oct 2012

Politics and Religion Collide Over Pamphlets [View all]

An Iowa church stepped in it;

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Politics and religion have collided at a Burlington church after a pamphlet encouraging people to vote to remove an Iowa Supreme Court justice surfaced at a Sunday service.

A woman who attended the City Church service on Sept. 30 told the pastor it was illegal for the church to display the pamphlets.

The Internal Revenue Service could revoke a church's nonprofit status for promoting candidates or ballot issues.

The incident has been reported to the IRS, which declined to comment.

Pastor Steve Youngblood says the woman's rebelliousness isn't proper Christian behavior. In a sermon Oct. 7, he acknowledged wanting to slap her.


I hope this church learns the hard way that politics and religion don't mix.
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