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GOVERNMENT
POLICY
The push for more - or less - politicking from churches
For more sources,
see ReligionLink's Guide
to Church-State Sources.
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THE NORTHEAST
• Bryan Hehir is the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice
of Religion and Public Life at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is an expert
on religion and American society. Contact 617-384-7776, bryan_hehir@ksg.harvard.edu.
• Richard
Pomp is a law professor at the University of Connecticut and a tax expert. He
says the situation at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, Calif., is reminiscent
of the days when President Richard Nixon used the IRS to target his enemies.
Contact 860-570-5251.
IN
THE EAST
• Brian E. Comerford is a professor at the Brooklyn Law School in Brooklyn,
N.Y. He is an expert on religion and federal tax laws. He wrote the entry "Tax
Law and American Religion" for Religion and American Law: An Encyclopedia
(Garland Publishing, 1999). Contact 718-780-7942, brian.comerford@brooklaw.edu.
• Ram
A. Cnaan is a professor at the school of social work at the University of Pennsylvania
in Philadelphia. He studies religious nonprofit organizations and their role
in American society. Contact 215-898-5523, cnaan@ssw.upenn.edu.
• Rikki
Abzug is an assistant professor of nonprofit management at Milano The New School
for Management and Urban Policy, in New York. She has looked at the growing
number of Islamic nonprofit organizations in the U.S. Contact 212-229-5311 ext.
1414, Abzugr@newschool.edu.
• Marci
Hamilton is a professor at the Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University in
New York. She is a nationally recognized expert on the religion clauses of the
First Amendment and wrote the book God vs. the Gavel: Religion and the Rule
of Law (Cambridge University Press, 2005). Contact 212-790-0215, Hamilton02@aol.com.
• Ira
Lupu is a constitutional law scholar and professor at the George Washington
University Law School. He says that if religious groups want to engage in partisan
politics, they must separate their political activities from their educational
or religious work. Contact 202-994-7053, iclupu@law.gwu.edu.
IN
THE SOUTHEAST
•
Frances Hill is a University of Miami law professor and an expert on the political
rights of tax-exempt organizations. She says tax-exempt organizations can be
passionate about politics without losing their tax-exempt status. Contact 305-284-2642,
f.hill@miami.edu.
• Neal
E. Devins is director of the Institute of Bill of Rights Law at the Marshall-Wythe
School of Law at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va. He has
studied the case of Bob Jones University's battle for tax-exempt status. Contact
757-221-3845, nedevi@wm.edu.
• David
A. Brennen is the Ellison C. Palmer Professor of Tax Law at the Mercer University
School of Law in Macon, Ga. He co-wrote the book The Tax Law of Charities
and Other Exempt Organizations: Cases, Materials, Questions and Activities (West
Group Publishing, 2003) Contact 478-301-5908, brennen_da@mercer.edu.
• Melissa
Rogers is Visiting Professor of Religion and Public Policy at Wake Forest University
Divinity School in Falls Church, Va. She previously served as executive director
of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life in Washington, D.C. She has looked
at IRS investigations of churches for political activities related to the 2004
presidential election. Contact 202-904-4936, mrogers01@cox.net.
• Robert
Wineburg is a professor of social work at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro
who has looked at IRS investigations of churches for political activities related
to the 2004 presidential election. Contact 336-334-5228, Bob_wineburg@uncg.edu.
IN
THE SOUTH
• Paul Joseph Weber is a political science professor at the University
of Louisville in Kentucky. He wrote the entry "Taxation" for the Encyclopedia
of Politics and Religion (Routledge, 1998). Contact 502-852-3305, paulweber@louisville.edu.
• Natalie
Davis is a political science professor at Birmingham-Southern College. She is
an expert on religion and taxes. Contact 205-226-4837, ndavis@bsc.edu.
IN
THE MIDWEST
• Gina Torielli is director of the Graduate Program in Taxation at the
Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Mich. She is an expert on tax-exempt
organizations. Contact 248-370-3625, toriellg@cooley.edu.
• John
D. Colombo is a Thomas M. Mengler Faculty Scholar at the University of Illinois
College of Law in Champaign, Ill. He has proposed a new theoretical and practical
system for determining when nonprofit entities should receive tax exemptions.
Contact 217-333-7985, jcolombo@law.uiuc.edu.
• Donald
Tobin is an associate professor of law at Ohio State University's Michael E.
Moritz College of Law. He is an expert on religious organizations and the federal
tax exemption. He has written on the case of the Roman Catholic bishop in Colorado
Springs who sent out a church letter saying Catholics should not receive communion
if they voted for politicians who supported abortion rights. Contact 614-688-3539,
tobin.46@osu.edu.
• Richard
W. Garnett is a Lily Endowment associate professor of law at Notre Dame. He
wrote the article "A Quiet Faith? Taxes, Politics and the Privatization
of Religion" for the Boston College Law Review (2001). Contact 574-631-6981,
Rick.Garnett.4@nd.edu.
IN
THE SOUTHWEST
• Douglas Laycock is a law professor at the University of Texas who has
expertise in the legality of religious political activity. Contact 512-232-1341,
dlaycock@mail.law.utexas.edu.
• Peter
Frumkin is a professor of public affairs and director of the RGK Center for
Philanthropy and Community Service at the LBJ School at the University of Texas
at Austin. He is the author of On Being Nonprofit: A Conceptual and Policy
Primer (Harvard University Press, 2005). Contact 512-232-7062, frumkin@mail.utexas.edu.
• Vaughn
E. James is a law professor at Texas Tech University. He wrote the article "Reaping
Where They Have Not Sowed: Have American Churches Failed to Satisfy the Requirements
for the Religious Tax Exemptions?" for the Catholic Law Review (2004).
Contact 806-742-3990 ext. 246, vjames@law.ttu.edu.
IN
THE WEST/NORTHWEST
• Ted
Jelen is a political science professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
He wrote the entry "Tax Exempt Status of Religious Organizations"
for the Encyclopedia of American Religion and Politics (Facts on File,
2003). Contact 702-895-3355, jelent@unlv.nevada.edu.
• Stephen
Bainbridge is a professor of law at the University of California at Los Angeles.
He has written on his blog
about the Roman Catholic bishop in Colorado Springs who sent out a church letter
saying Catholics should not receive communion if they voted for politicians
who supported abortion rights. Contact 310-206-1599, bainbridge@law.ucla.edu.
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