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inlawrev-3800	Ryan, Meghan J.	Can the IRS Silence Religious Organizations?	2007	24	.pdf	application/pdf	11987	685	51	Can the IRS Silence Religious Organizations? Meghan J. Ryan* As the campaign season for the 2008 presidential election begins, politicians are already courting religious organizations, which will certainly again play a crucial role in the election' s outcome. ' During the last political campaign season, religious organizations engaged in what some would characterize as unsavory politicking.^ For instance, a Baptist church backed a ban on gay marriage in a nationally televised Sunday service,^ a Catholic cardinal declared that individuals wearing rainbow sashes to church to identify themselves as homosexuals would be denied communion,^ and a bishop distributed a letter to his parishioners stating that any Catholic who votes for a political candidate supportive of abortion, same-sex marriage, or stem-cell research should be denied communion.^ Most notably, the Archbishop of Boston threatened to deny presidential candidate John Kerry communion in the Catholic Church because of Kerry's political view on abortion.^ Churches, however, did not act alone in exploiting issues infused with both religious and political elements.	cache/inlawrev-3800.pdf	txt/inlawrev-3800.txt