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I believe that Ralph has written a bit about the "Justice Sunday" events in the past year or so.

Personally, I've only seen explicitly political messages show up twice in church services -- one anti-abortion homily immediately after some mid-nineties Supreme Court abortion decision, and one death-row moratorium petition drive set up by the church door. Your mileage may vary, obviously. A friend of mine attends this guy's church, and apparently the book's subjects are weekly sermon fodder.

I just read the whole report, and because they're preserving the anonymity of those who were accused and dismissed, accused and warned, and accused and had exempt status revoked, it's impossible to tell whether the enforcement was in any way politically slanted. The report does note that many violations were due to misunderstanding of the rules: organizations had in some cases gone to great lengths to avoid explicitly endorsing a candidate, but had still broken the rules by implicit endorsements and were surprised when investigated.

Hmmm, well, there's this one.

Thanks for the link. The problem with the report is that anything like that has been concealed by the anonymizing of its suspects. We've heard the same sort of charges about a few churches that gave anti-war sermons, as well, but that's not in the report either.