Ok, so I heard this on KLOVE today and I thought i'd get GCers opinions on the topic.
I knowt hat the whole idea of "separation of Church and State" was to keep religion out of politics, but I didn't know it meant the reverse as well (keeping politics out of religion).
Ban on Political Endorsements by Pastors
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CHICAGO -- Declaring that clergy have a constitutional right to endorse political candidates from their pulpits, the socially conservative Alliance Defense Fund is recruiting several dozen pastors to do just that on Sept. 28, in defiance of Internal Revenue Service rules.
The effort by the Arizona-based legal consortium is designed to trigger an IRS investigation that ADF lawyers would then challenge in federal court. The ultimate goal is to persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out a 54-year-old ban on political endorsements by tax-exempt houses of worship.
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Do you think that Pastors should be able to mention that "I'm going to vote for Obama" or "I'm going to vote for McCain" from their pulpit (of course without going to the extreme like Rev. Wright)?
I wouldn't mind my pastor casually mentioning that he was gonna vote for Obama or McCain, but I WOULD mind if he said "I'm voting for _____ and you should too because...."
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