{"id":2150,"date":"2004-07-19T11:15:04","date_gmt":"2004-07-19T16:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2150.html"},"modified":"2004-07-19T11:15:04","modified_gmt":"2004-07-19T16:15:04","slug":"for-an-alleged-religious-leader-falwell-has-some-trouble-with-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/for-an-alleged-religious-leader-falwell-has-some-trouble-with-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"For an alleged religious leader, Falwell has some trouble with the truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry Falwell on Fox News Channel, Friday evening:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The fact is that &#8216;Old Time Gospel Hour,&#8217; or any other ministry with which I&#8217;ve been associated has never lost its tax exemption.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Falwell on CNBC, two weeks ago, when asked if his group had lost its tax-exempt status:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Never. Never. Never. Not one minute. Not one second. You are wrong&#8230;. Never one second did we lose our tax exemption.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Associated Press, April 2, 1993:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Rev. Jerry Falwell&#8217;s Old-Time Gospel Hour has agreed to pay $ 50,000 in back taxes for improper political activities in 1986 and 1987.<\/p>\n<p>The settlement reached last month concludes a four-year Internal Revenue Service investigation of organizations affiliated with Falwell. <\/p>\n<p>The IRS said the Old-Time Gospel Hour, the broadcast ministry of Falwell&#8217;s Thomas Road Baptist Church, raised funds for political purposes.<\/p>\n<p><b>The ministry&#8217;s tax-exempt status for 1986 and 1987 was revoked<\/b>. (emphasis added)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a theologian, but isn&#8217;t there a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/story\/11\/story_1137_1.html\">Commandment<\/a> about about bearing false witness?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry Falwell on Fox News Channel, Friday evening: &#8220;The fact is that &#8216;Old Time Gospel Hour,&#8217; or any other ministry with which I&#8217;ve been associated has never lost its tax exemption.&#8221; Falwell on CNBC, two weeks ago, when asked if his group had lost its tax-exempt status: &#8220;Never. Never. Never. Not one minute. Not one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}