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GOVERNMENT POLICY
Religious leaders’ political endorsements
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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. Contact 860-570-5251.
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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. 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.
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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. She participated in a June 2007 forum titled,
“The Minister and Politics: How to be Political without being Partisan.”
Contact 202-904-4936, rogersm@wfu.edu.
• 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.
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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
• Douglas
Laycock is Yale Kamisar Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of
Michigan Law School. He has national expertise in the legality of religious
political activity. Contact 734-647-9713, laycockd@umich.edu.
• 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. Contact 614-688-3539, tobin.46@osu.edu.
• Richard W. Garnett is a Lilly 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.
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THE SOUTHWEST
• Respect
Our Faith is an organization of clergy and lay people in Texas who support
civic involvement by people of faith but who object to churches or ministers
being misused for political gain. Contact Ryan Valentine, 512-322-0545, ryan@tfn.org.
• 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.
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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 law professor at the University of California
at Los Angeles. He blogs
about law, politics, religion, culture – and wine. Contact 310-206-1599,
bainbridge@law.ucla.edu.
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