No tax-exemption for Christian Coalition.(Brief Article)

From: The Christian Century | Date: June 30, 1999 | Copyright information

Abandoning its decade-long attempt to gain tax-exempt status, the Christian Coalition on June i recast itself as a partisan political entity that will openly fund and endorse candidates. Along with a host of recent staff shuffles and a reported growing financial deficit, those developments could portend a significant change in the status and influence of what has been the Religious Right's marquee political organization.

The Chesapeake, Virginia-based organization said i...

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