As Michael Stewart of the Pensacola News Journal reports:

"Of the 58 charges, 44 were filed against Kent Hovind and his wife, Jo, for evading bank reporting requirements as they withdrew $430,500 from AmSouth Bank between July 20, 2001, and Aug. 9, 2002.

....."I still don't understand what I'm being charged for and who is charging me," he [ Hovind ] said.

Kent Hovind, who often calls himself "Dr. Dino," has been sparring with the IRS for at least 17 years on his claims that he is employed by God, receives no income, has no expenses and owns no property."

But, as Ed Brayton drily observes, on Dispatches From The Culture Wars:

"Now I'm no fan of the IRS, an agency I would just as soon didn't exist. But the law is the law and Hovind has been flagrantly violating it for a very long time. The fact that he thinks, or claims to think, that he doesn't really have to pay taxes doesn't budge reality any more than his belief that the world is 6000 years old makes it so."

The Pensacola News Journal article quotes an especially pithy statement from Hovind:

"No one has ever observed a dog produce a non-dog," Hovind once wrote in reply to a New York Times article.

Comedy aside, there is an element to this story that will probably be missed : observers from the mainstream and American left like to laugh at the more colorful characters who populate the Christian right of which Hovind is certainly one - and revel in their downfall. But, buttoned down and sober leaders such as D. James Kennedy draw little attention and - for that - have the greatest effect, and the comedic element the Kent Hovins of the Christian right movement can serve to give the impression that the movement is populated by silly bumpkins who in the end will get their comeuppance.

As a counterpoint to such perceptions, let me recommend the following document, a strategic panaroma of the multiple and interlocking movements that comprise the Christian right:

The Big Picture: A Surprise-laden Survey of the 30 Foremost Movements of God in America