Wiley Drake on IRS probe: “We win.”
Southern Baptist Pastor Wiley Drake Sr. announced today that the Internal Revenue Service cleared him of any wrongdoing in his endorsement of presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee.
“The bottom line is we are absolutely not guilty. We win,” Drake told about 50 parishioners at the First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park, who broke out in applause . . .
“I’m sorry folks, I live in America, not Russia or China,” Drake said. He then added, “The pastor does not run the church. The people run the church.” . . .
As for the IRS, Ripley said, “I think they are butting in where they don’t have any business.”
Drake said a group of pastors across the country plans to force the church-and-state issue on September 28, in a day of preaching and politics organized by the Alliance Defense Fund, a conservative religious-advocacy group that is representing Drake for free. Religious leaders will speak about politicians, he said.
“We will name names,” Drake said during his sermon. “We will not let the IRS get away with this.” . . .