Legal Opinion
Br Mnstry Inc v. Rossotti, Charles O.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided May 12, 2000No. 99-5097PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the court filed by Senior Judge BUCKLEY.
BUCKLEY, Senior Judge:
Four days before' the 1992 presidential election, Branch Ministries, a tax-exempt church, placed full-page advertisements in two newspapers in which it urged Christians not to vote for then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton because of his positions on certain moral issues. The Internal Revenue Service concluded that the placement of the advertisements violated the statutory restrictions on organizations exempt from taxation and, for the first time in its history, it revoked a bona fide church’s tax-exempt status…
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