It was a Saturday "gathering" rather than speaking from the pulpit during Sunday services. That makes it a non-church meeting, at which he has the same right to say things about Obama that I do.
And if churches would abandon their phony, corrupting IRS designations, the pulpit could tell the whole unvarnished truth too.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Incorrect. Mass is celebrated seven days a week.
The churches in California where there are Masses in Spanish
regularly hold political meetings in the church school concerning rents for illegal aliens, health services, deportations, politics etc. with LULAC, La Raza, people there, etc.
Saw one in 1990`s where even the Mayor of a large city was attending a meeting in the church school viz above to answer protest by radical Latino groups.
The bishop there always brought Mexican priests up from Mexico to replace the English-speaking pastors where there was demand for a Spanish-language Mass coz none or hardly any of the Latino parishoners spoke any English.
The pastor, from Mexico, also spoke at the meeting about some of the above issues.
No one ever sued for separation of church and state then, This has been going on since the 1980`s as far as I can recollect.
Another double standard.