Megachurch Calvary Chapel (R-Fla) helps conservative candidates for political office

[Mika]

Megachurch Calvary Chapel helps conservative candidates for political office

South Florida religious conservatives and others on the political right, determined to transform the political landscape, have gone thorough their own boot camp.
They call themselves "effectivists."
Hosted by the nine-campus megachurch Calvary Chapel, they're building a road map for change by brushing up on public speaking, fundraising and effective advocacy
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The other track was aimed at campaign managers and candidates for local offices: city councils and commissions, school boards and state legislatures. Ryun said those people can implement change and they serve as a farm team of seasoned candidates who eventually can run for Congress.
"This is about winning," Ryun said. People who go through the training are called "effectivists," who learn how to get things done instead of just carping about how they'd like different results.

more ... http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2013-07-20/news/fl-religious-conservatives-organize-20130720_1_candidates-public-speaking-track

[longship]

1. Tax them!

If they want to play that game, they lose their tax free status.

[Champion Jack]

2. Revoke their Tax Exempt Status Now!

[Mr. David]

3. revoke the tax exempt for all religion - no exceptions.

None at all.

If they want to bullshit to the people, then they must pay their taxes first.

[muntrv]

4. Tax these bums!

[libodem]

5. Tax them

If they cross, the church vs state, lines. Let go and let God, if you believe so much.

[xtraxritical]

6. F Jesus

[Mika]

7. You can't really be equating Jesus with these freaks, can you?

Your remark is F-ed up.

[blkmusclmachine]

8. Tax the Churches.

We need the money.

[Initech]

9. They want to endorse candidates? They lose their tax exempt status.

[PopeOxycontinI]

10. Wow!

This sounds so fucking illegal! It is quite possible, though, that they have had a team
of lawyers advise them how to stay technically within the letter of the law...
not that that makes it much less despicable, and I've never heard of the fucking
law being fucking enforced even on more cut and dried illegal shit.

[RussBLib]

11. Has the IRS ever revoked any tax exempt status from a church?

Some of these "conservative" churches are openly flouting the rules, on purpose. And the IRS does nothing.

Somebody have some balls and yank their tax exempt status fer chrissakes.

[tabbycat31]

12. I've gone to a dozen political trainings

And this sounds like one of them (I've never been to a GOP one).

I wonder if the church was just the venue for the training or did they actually host it? Many churches will rent out their space to various groups.

I went to a political training that was hosted in a (public) high school on a weekend. The school did not endorse us at all, we just used the school as our venue.