Why thank you for that compliment.
I think Churches who promote POLITICAL agendas should loose their tax free status - PERIOD.
So, if Obama issues an EO that calls for the execution of all Catholic priests, the Church has no right to object?
I guess it goes without saying that you think the Church has no right to object to the HHS Abortion Mandate.
After all, Obama is a POLITICIAN, and his official acts are a matter of POLITICS, and anyone who objects is engaging in POLITICAL activity.
In Germany, the issue of how the Jews were being treated was a POLITICAL issue.
It’s funny that you treat as a self-evident principle something that dates from 1954—and came about as an accident. And was imposed on the country by the murderous, election-stealing thug, LBJ.
A 501(c)(3) organization in Texas campaigned against Lyndon Johnson. Johnson got a provision put in the IRS code banning campaigning for or against candidates by tax-exempt organizations.
The effect on churches wasn’t even intentional.
Nowadays, people treat the ban on political activity by churches as a self-evident Founding Principle.
It’s nonsense. Any church, or any minister, who wishes to say anything about any issue or candidate ought to be free to do so, AS THEY WERE FROM 1620 UNTIL 1954. Their pronouncements will be evaluated by their fellow citizens like anybody else’s pronouncements.