On Glenn Beck’s program, David Barton, President and Founder of Wallbuilders, discussed the Alliance Defense Fund’s Pulpit Initiative and the upcoming Pulpit Freedom Sunday.  Pulpit Freedom Sunday was started in 2008 by the Alliance Defense Fund.  It is a head-on constitutional challenge to the IRS’ ability to censor what a pastor says from the pulpit.  On Pulpit Freedom Sunday, pastors will stand in their pulpit and speak biblical truth about the issue of candidates and elections.

In 2008, the first year of the Pulpit Initiative, 33 pastors from 22 states preached sermons about the candidates facing election that year.  They made specific recommendations about voting based on their biblical evaluation of the candidates.  Then, these courageous pastors took their sermons and sent them to the IRS, all in the hopes of sparking an IRS audit of the church that would lead to a constitutional challenge to the IRS’ ability to censor a pastor’s sermon.  In 2009, 84 pastors from 30 states and the District of Columbia participated in Pulpit Freedom Sunday.

This year, we hope to have over a hundred pastors standing in their pulpits to speak biblical truth about candidates and elections.  If the IRS audits these churches, ADF will represent them free of charge and will argue that the tax code restriction that censors a pastor’s sermon is unconstitutional.  For more information about the Pulpit Initiative, visit our website.

Pastors must be free to speak biblical truth from the pulpit without fearing government censorship or control.  It’s time to get the government out of the pulpits out of America.

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