Pastors plan to ‘bait’ IRS with pulpit politics
NASHVILLE — On Sunday, a group of 100 preachers nationwide will step into the pulpit and say the only words they’re forbidden by law from speaking in a church.
They plan to use the pulpit as a platform for political endorsements, flouting a federal law that threatens churches with the loss of their nonprofit status if they stray too far into partisan politics.
This seems like a brilliant idea. Of course, the homophobic bigot brigade known as the Alliance Defense Fund is behind this.
The article has a pretty good summary of a normal human reaction to this type of attention whoring:
The defense fund’s polar opposite, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, issued a statement this week calling pulpit-based lawbreaking “the worst idea ever.”