Church Votes To Fight IRS Summons

All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, California announced at a news conference yesterday that its 26-member vestry has voted unanimously to fight the IRS' summonses issued last week that call for various documents and an interview with the rector regarding an anti-war sermon by a guest preacher just before the 2004 Presidential election. (See prior posting.) The Associated Press yesterday reported that the church's rector, Rev. Ed Bacon, was joined at his news conference by 40 representatives of mosques, synagogues and other churches. Santa Monica Rabbi Neil Comess-Daniels urged supporters of all faiths contribute to funds to help All Saints with its legal costs. Comess-Daniels made the first pledge at the news conference.