 the pulpit the irs pastors preached from the pulpit on sunday september 26 2010 challenging the irs to try to enforce a law that nonprofit taxexempt entities cannot   ldquo participate in or intervene in including the publishing or distributing of statements any political campaign on behalf of or in opposition to any candidate for public office rdquo  if this provision is violated the church can be penalized by losing their ldquo taxexempt rdquo status for on this link click on  ldquo pulpit freedom sunday confronts irs rdquo  written by bob adelmann for an article explaining the event its history and why our freedom of speech is in jeopardy 217  the pulpit the irs  