Tax-code limits on political activity do not restrain religious advocacy groups

Evidence

Ralph Reed launched the Faith & Freedom Coalition, an advocacy group organized under the auspices of the section of the tax code that supposedly limits activity expressly to promote candidates. That restriction has not prevented Ralph Reed from turning his organization into an extension of the Republican party’s political machine. — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers, 288

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Churches route political campaigning through lay teams to evade IRS limits — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 67; Churches design culture-focused voter mobilization teams to evade IRS political-campaign rules — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 67; The IRS’s challenge to segregated schools, not abortion, birthed the Religious Right — Randall Balmer, Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the…, 23 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Churches route political campaigning through lay teams to evade IRS limits #corroborates (0.95) — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers, 67
• Churches design culture-focused voter mobilization teams to evade IRS political-campaign rules #corroborates (0.95) — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers, 67
• The IRS’s challenge to segregated schools, not abortion, birthed the Religious Right #complicates (0.75) — Randall Balmer, Bad Faith, 23