re: #179 BeachDem

Well, this is helpful:

Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, which is located in the Old Town neighborhood of San Diego and that will be a polling place on election day, distributed a weekly newsletter in mid-October that had a flier inserted in it that told parishioners they’d go to hell if they voted for Democrats.

rawstory.com

I was reading the article below the other day. The GOP needs to be defeated resoundingly because these religious right assholes are still intent on tearing down the wall between church & state:

Religious leaders risk losing tax-exempt status for picking side

NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) - A 50-year-old rule in the federal tax code has been thrust into the middle of the presidential campaign, and it’s creating a big debate over the separation of church and state.

It’s called the Johnson Amendment, and Donald Trump wants to repeal it. […]

Fifty-two years after Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson introduced a federal tax rule prohibiting 501(c)(3) organizations from supporting political candidates, Republicans are calling for a change. […]

McDonald said he believes this push to allow tax exempt organizations to support candidates is only going to get stronger.

“In 2012 I kind of saw an eclipse of it. I saw it start to permeate a little bit. Now it’s really proliferated to where people are asking questions and really wanting to know what it’s about,” McDonald said. […]

http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/33544131/religious-leaders-risk-losing-tax-exempt-status-for-picking-sides-in-election

Churches, synagogues, mosques, etc. free to fire up their followers over politics—what could possibly go wrong? And BTW, what about all the whining WRT “political Islam” supposedly intent on undermining our Constitution? (As if other religions aren’t “political.” Puhleez.)