The Backside Of The Bell Curve Strikes Again

Someone at Calvary Temple Church in Kerrville, Texas, had to request the checks.

Someone at Calvary Temple Church in Kerrville, Texas, had to approved the payments.

Since the Kerr County Republican Party reported the checks (totaling $1500), as per campaign finance law dictates, Calvary Temple Church can't claim they didn't know that donations to the Republican Party weren't tax deductible.

But, as night must surely follow day, that's what they're claiming. And they want their money back. That way, they hope their little accounting problem will just go away.

Someone is lying.

Kerrville church asks political gift refund

San Antonio Express-News

Hoping to head off potential problems with the Internal Revenue Service, Calvary Temple Church in Kerrville has requested the Kerr County Republican Party to refund $1,500 in contributions the church made between 2003 and 2005 in the form of entry fees at the party's annual golf tournaments.

"It was all innocent and unintentional, and we're trying everything we can to make it right," said Pastor Del Way

He said he never considered the golf entry fees to be political contributions.

People United for the Separation of Church and State, a watchdog group, complained to the IRS last week that federal law was violated by the payments it learned of from political contribution reports filed with the state ethics commission.

Ed Nemec, chairman of the Republican Party in Kerr County, said the group's executive committee will vote on the refund issue Aug. 7.

So... I say to the good people of Calvary Temple Church, whose Sunday plate passing and annual tithing coins were spent on Republican Party golf fee donations, congratulations!

You're this week's Backside Of The Bell Curve winners!


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