All Saints to reject IRS summons

Hey hey!

All Saints Episcopal church has voted to defy the IRS! Read the church's press release here.

An excerpt from the pastor, Rev. Ed Bacon:

"We have gathered and reviewed the most relevant of the documents requested by the summons. They fully support our position that we have always respected the IRS regulations against campaign intervention... We are today defending our religious responsibilities to criticize any public policies that demean or destroy any member of the human family. Our faith demands that we say without fear or intimidation that every human life is sacred and that in God's eyes every human life is equally precious. This calls us to speak to the issues of war and poverty, bigotry, torture, and all forms of terrorism... Because these responsibilities are required by our faith, they are therefore constitutionally protected."

Regardless of the specifics of our politics, all progressive persons of faith need to take an important lesson from these folks: You have to really OWN your commitments, or they're not commitments.