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Christian teen outreach for Oxendine draws ethical questions

By Alliance Alert

The Oklahoman: "Republican John Oxendine paid his former campaign manager's consulting firm to dispatch Christian teenage volunteers door-to-door promoting his bid for Georgia governor, a move that raises ethical and legal questions about the mingling of politics and nonprofit groups. ... In 2008, pastors at six churches either endorsed or made pointed comments about political candidates from their pulpits in defiance of federal tax law. The Alliance Defense Fund, an Arizona-based conservative legal group, orchestrated the pulpit protest to invite IRS scrutiny and a legal fight aimed at finding the restrictions unconstitutional."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on July 02, 2010 (boomark / email).