IRS Investigating Anti-War Church

I wasn't sure whether you all had seen this story, but the IRS is investigating an Episcopal parish whose pastor gave a sermon opposing the war in Iraq.  Apparently, the IRS is considering whether to revoke the Church's tax exempt status.  It's an interesting (and, I think, important) story.  The Church's web page is here.  You can read the sermon that led to the investigation.  Here's the story from beliefnet.

In a way, I think this goes to some of the important questions Rick raised below about whether Catholics should feel more comfortable with the Republican or Democratic platform.  I think he is aboslutely correct that the Dems have served CST very poorly of late in the areas of social justice, capital punishment, etc., though it was not always thus.  I'm just not sure the Republicans do much better on their issues, as this story seems to show, and as the Alito answers on Roe v. Wade may also suggest.  For all the tough Republican talk on abortion, 7 of the 9 justices of the Supreme Court were appointed by them, and Roe is still the law.  In the end, I think neither party scores all that high on the CST-meter, though in the end I give the nod to the Democrats for at least not bashing the poor and being somewhat more skeptical than Republicans of capital punishment and militarism.  This is admitedly a low standard, and since the Clinton presidency (whose treatment of Ricky Rector during the 1992 campaign still turns my stomach), I have not considered myself an enthusiastic Democrat.