Pastors can ALREADY endorse candidates. They just can't preach to their congregations about it, because then the message is coming from a tax-exempt church rather than a taxpaying person.
They have even found clever ways to do it from the pulput with impunity. In one of the George W. Bush campaigns, I recall one preacher telling his flock that he couldn't instruct them on how to vote, but he would advise them to stay out of the bushes.
How did we get to where we are in our culture and our politics today? I have wondered this since Obama took office and started exacting his socialist agenda on our great country. There is plenty of blame to go around—complacency, greed, laziness, apathy. I submit that churches may not have caused the problems we have today, but certainly could have curtailed the advancement of tyranny. In my work (my book and The Dr. Gina Show), I have laid out the way that some cowardly pastors have tolerated their flocks’ apathy, greed, complacency and laziness, and that only the...
Only religious groups are banned from free speech. In the name of freedom of course.