[Myrddin]

This seems to be a move by the Democrats to silence the religious right. They seem to forget all the speeches made from the pulpits of black churches. Jesse Jackson, Sharpton and Bill Clinton do a lot political campaigning from the pulpit. The sword cuts both ways. If not, there is a dirt simple cause to bring action under the equal protection clause.

[highlander_UW]

You are 100% correct...the democrats are royal hypocrites. What they fail to grasp is that if they try to control the churches too much they are going to begin renouncing their tax exempt status and begin to speak out AGAINST them. And it won't take all of the churches to do so. Picture the outcry that'll occur if even 10% of churches renounce their tax exempt status and those 10% of all pastors begin to speak out against the evil in our society...much of it the party platform of the democrat party. Before too long the democrats will be begging churches to take up the tax exempt status in an effort to shut them up...can you picture the backpedaling the ACLU would have to do at the beck and call of their democrat masters?