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This weekend social conservatives from the religious right are gathering in Washington D.C. for the “Values Voter Summit.” Starting today and running through Sunday, the event sponsored by the Family Research Council Action and the Alliance Defense Fund is expected to draw 2,000 participants. According to the FRC’s website, this third annual summit is a call to action for transforming the nation’s political landscape on issues such as same-sex marriage, radical Islam, and judicial activism. The summit, which is anticipated to be energized by the selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as the Republican Vice Presidential candidate, will feature speakers such as Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Sean Hannity, and Rudy Guiliani. However, as the Values Voter Summit is underway, three prominent tax attorneys and former Internal Revenue Service officials have filed a complaint with their former agency alleging that the sponsoring organization, the Alliance Defense Fund, is in breach of tax law. They contend that the ADF plan to ask pastors to endorse or oppose candidates from the pulpit later this month is a federal tax law violation.

GUEST: Sarah Posner, investigative journalist, expert on conservative evangelicals, writes for the American Prospect website about news of the religious right, and author of “God’s Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters”