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Reshared post from +Larry Maxwell Another church displays true colors and as a result could lose tax exempt status.\u00a0 article here:\u00a0http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/texas-church-sign-says-vote-for-the-mormon-not-the-muslim?cid=db_articles Google+: View post on Google+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46212,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/03\/political-pulpits.html","url_meta":{"origin":31090,"position":0},"title":"Political pulpits","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 3-Nov-14 2:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's the bottom line: churches get tax exemption on money donated to them and on their assets. 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