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Washington Post, via the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, USA
June 1, 2007
Alan Cooperman
www.sun-sentinel.com

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ReligionNewsBlog.com • Item 18399 • Posted: Saturday June 2, 2007  

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WASHINGTON _ Florida evangelist Bill Keller says he was making a spiritual — not political — statement when he warned the 2.4 million subscribers to his Internet prayer ministry that “if you vote for Mitt Romney, you are voting for Satan!”

But the Washington-based advocacy group Americans United for Separation of Church and State says the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) should revoke the 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status of Bill Keller Ministries, nonetheless.

Keller, 49, who has a call-in show on a Tampa television station and a Web site called Liveprayer.com, on May 11 sent out a “daily devotional” that called Romney “an unabashed and proud member of the Mormon cult founded by a murdering polygamist pedophile named Joseph Smith nearly 200 years ago.

” If the former Massachusetts governor wins the GOP nomination and the presidency, Keller’s message added, it will “ultimately lead millions of souls to the eternal flames of hell.”

In a letter to the IRS on Thursday, Americans United called Keller’s message a violation of the ban on partisan politicking by tax-exempt religious groups.

Keller, in a telephone interview, laughed off the controversy. “Let them come after me for making a spiritual statement about Mitt Romney. I would love that,” he said. “Bring it on.”

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