RE: Baptists in Texas don't support Biden
January 7, 2021 at 4:57 pm
(This post was last modified: January 7, 2021 at 5:01 pm by HappySkeptic.)
(January 7, 2021 at 4:22 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Your fuhrer signed an executive order curtailing it's enforcement.
The Johnson Amendment is actually pretty benign. It only curtails political campaigning by the church (i.e. stopping subverting campaign financing laws by funneling political campaign money to churches). It does not stop statements from the pulpit or a clear bias toward any political idea or spectrum. In a country that supposedly has a separation of church and state, I don't see why it is an issue.
In Canada, the Conservatives passed a law to prevent tax-exempt organizations from giving almost any political view on any subject. Lobbying and all partisan statements at any time were forbidden (and probably always were), but this one ensured that only 10% of all energy or money could be put into purposes that could be considered political.
The purpose was to shut down environmental groups that were opposing the oil patch and pipelines. Some of those groups willingly gave up their tax status.
But, churches got caught in the crossfire. My national church body threatened with removal of status as a church because one of its stated values (for 50+ years) has been "social justice". To Conservatives that now means left-wing SJW, so it was forbidden.