Let the insurrection begin. This is as good a place as any. If they prosecute dissolve and reform. A name doesn’t mean much.
Apparently this was not an issue at all until 1954:
http://www.speakupmovement.org/church/LearnMore/details/5252
The Johnson Amendment was passed by Congress in 1954 as an amendment to section 501(c)(3) of the federal tax code. The Johnson Amendment states that entities who are exempt from federal income tax cannot:
Participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distributing of statements), any political campaign on behalf of – or in opposition to – any candidate for public office.
http://www.firebuilders.org/JAmCEC.htm
In 1954, Johnson was facing re-election to the Senate and was being aggressively opposed by two non-profit anti-Communist groups that were attacking Johnson’s liberal agenda. In retaliation, Johnson inserted language into the IRS code that prohibited non-profits, including churches, from endorsing or opposing candidates for political office. In effect, Senator Johnson used the power of the go-along Congress and the IRS to silence his opposition. Unfortunately, it worked. Some in Johnson’s staff claimed that Johnson never intended to go after churches, only the two “nonprofits” in Texas. Nevertheless, his sly amendment to the tax code affected every church in America, and it is a violation of the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.
Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, Barak obastard ... the four most evil presidents in the history of the country.
In the 58 years since this was added, seems strange that I have never heard of an attempt to amend the amendment and get rid of it.
Excellent post.
The statists are in hypergallactic global turbo mode to "control freedom in order to preserve it".