Huckabee encourages churches to violate tax exempt status

Huckabee today encouraged voters "hijack your church's bus" to "get people to the caucus who are going to vote for me." Surely he is aware that tax exempt churches can not participate in activities to support a particular candidate.

If he would have said hijack a church bus to assist your neighbors in doing their civic duty by voting it would have been excellent. But if this is an indication of things to come he may be seeking clergy "who are going to vote for me" to turn over their mailing lists and turn their churches into call centers for Jesus/Huckabee. He may find that more religious folks will be voting for Obama or Edwards because of, among many things, his lack of respect for the idea of a religiously neutral government.

If someone hijacks my car for use in a robbery, I'm not participating in the robbery, am I?

I was taking the whole statement as either literal or figurative when I should have taken Huckabee literally when he suggests people use church busses to get his voters to the caucus, but not literally when he suggests that the people "hijack" the busses.

This game is fun!