Court rules against anti-Clinton church

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court has upheld the loss of tax-exempt status for a New York church that warned Christians about voting for Bill Clinton for president in 1992.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia unanimously upheld a federal judge’s 1999 decision supporting the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) revocation of tax exemptions for The Church at Pierce Creek, Vestal, N.Y. Last year’s opinion of a church not accused of being a “sham church” or whose sincerity was unchallenged, according to The Washington Times.

The IRS ruled against the church in 1995 after an investigation of advertisements in USA Today and The Times four days before the 1992 election.