The Mormon church already does this, they just do it through their businesses and fake PACs. The LDS excel at money laundering. They also preach from the pulpit as it were - I heard it on more than one occasion even though they deny it.
Liberal churches campaign for Democrats from the pulpit all the time and no one ever says a thing about it. Before scaring off conservatives over something that LBJ did to censor pastors howzabout going after the leftists who preach partisan politics from the pulpit?
Finally, the churches should never have been forced to be classified non-profits. This was a political move by LBJ to shut up churches that did not like him. Also, other groups that fall into the non-profit category do not enjoy the same constitutional privileges as churches. Just like regulations on guns restrict the second amendment, restrictions on what a church can or cannot say is a direct violation of the first amendment.
Liberal politicians have a longtime bond to liberal churches that promote them and their liberation Marxism. Tax exemption and attempts by the government to silence churches has done little to stop them. Let a conservative church promote a candidate that reflects Christian positions on small government, culture and family, and the left will scream for the tax man to come. Attempts by the government to silence free speech in churches is part of the broader attempt to silence conservatism and control political education.
Wrong. If a candidate is immoral, unethical, unbiblical, etc., in a particular church's opinion, then the pastor and/or the church has every right from God to say so and to advise not supporting that candidate. They weren't throwing Christians to wolves in the coliseum because they were saying nice things about the emperors.
Congress has no right to tell churches what to look like, what to practice, or what to say. All of this is covered in the first amendment which merely reflects rights that come to us from God.
God WANTS us to speak out about what is wrong and what is right be it about behavior or about an individual.
King George V would absolutely agree, as he lost many of his North American colonies to a movement organized to a large extent in churches.
To reach people politically yo go where your peers are.
If you drink, go to bars, if you are an athlete go to gyms and parks, if you are primarily in religiouse outreach got to your place of worship.
“Campaigning for Candidates from the Pulpit is a Bad Idea”
Only if you are a white, Christian church.
These restrictions on freedom of speech by religious institutions are contrary to the Constitutionally protected freedom of religion from government interference.