Littlejohn reports church donation

Here’s an oddity: North Idaho legislative candidate Alan Littlejohn’s pre-primary campaign finance report says his campaign got a $100 contribution from “Lordship Church” in Athol. Typically, churches don’t contribute to partisan political campaigns, as it would endanger their tax-free status. But Lordship Church, according to a 2014 report in the Coeur d’Alene Press, was established that year by a California pastor who moved to the area as part of the Rev. Chuck Baldwin’s “Liberty Church” project, which seeks to “restore the patriot-pulpit” in America by establishing churches that eschew both federal 501c3 tax-free status and state incorporation status. That would leave them free to be involved in politics./ Betsy Z. Russell , Eye On Boise. More here .