LOS ANGELES - A liberal church at the center of a dispute with the Internal Revenue Service over a 2004 sermon will decide this week whether to fight an IRS summons.

The IRS is requesting a number of documents be produced by Sept. 29 and that the church’s rector, Rev. Ed Bacon, testify before an IRS agent on Oct. 11.

The congregation of All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena discussed the matter during a church service Sunday.

The church could lose its tax-exempt status because of an anti-war sermon delivered two days before the 2004 election by its former rector, Rev. George F. Regas.

Regas did not urge parishioners to support President Bush or Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., but was critical of the Iraq war and Bush’s tax cuts, Bacon said in an interview last November when the investigation was announced.

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Would someone please get the IRS a television? They apparently have never heard of Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell.