This order simply restores the right of free speech and assembly to churches. Even though it is a repeal of a law by fiat, the law it repealed is in fact a vile violation of the Constitution. This order simply restores the Liberty that LBJ took away. In that sense it is entirely consistent with the President’s sworn obligation to defend the Constitution and enforce the law -— the Constitution being the Supreme Law.
The Johnson Amendment hasn’t been repealed, it just requires that the government apply the law to churches in the same way that it applies to other 501(c)(3) organizations.
It states that “the Secretary of the Treasury shall ensure, to the extent permitted by law, that the Department of the Treasury does not take any adverse action against any individual, house of worship, or other religious organization on the basis that such individual or organization speaks or has spoken about moral or political issues from a religious perspective, where speech of similar character has, consistent with law, not ordinarily been treated as participation or intervention in a political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) a candidate for public office by the Department of the Treasury.”
A new law would be filibustered by Democrats. Therefore, the executive order is as good as we get for now. VP Pence, a solid conservative Christian, pushed hard for this. I’ll accept his belief that this is important.
That said, iirc, the author of this article, David French, was a spiteful never-Trumper.
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This order simply restores the right of free speech and assembly to churches. Even though it is a repeal of a law by fiat, the law it repealed is in fact a vile violation of the Constitution. This order simply restores the Liberty that LBJ took away. In that sense it is entirely consistent with the President’s sworn obligation to defend the Constitution and enforce the law -— the Constitution being the Supreme Law.
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Only the outcome matters, not the method(s), eh?
(R). (D). What matters who’s at the helm, long as the Party is ‘winning’?
Shouldn’t have expected much from Trump, aside from hiring the right people; political and party hacks, not so much.
Course, even Mr. Constitution (Cruz) is tight-lipped these days. Rand seems to be the only one out there raising the call.
Yes, the Const. is the Law of the Land. Then fight on every front to get it restored; not pull a Bush “I had to violate to support it” BS. Unfort., not even the (C) ‘think-tanks’ seem anything worth a court case on multiple fronts (EO vs. ‘law’, A1 vs. existing ‘law’, 16th/IRS vs. 1A, etc.) BURY ‘em and use the law against ‘em for once.