{"id":5516,"date":"2017-02-02T11:08:31","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T16:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5516"},"modified":"2017-02-02T11:08:31","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T16:08:31","slug":"trump-and-the-johnson-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5516","title":{"rendered":"Trump and the Johnson Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump vowed at this mornings Prayer Breakfast to repeal the Johnson Amendment<\/a>, which bars clergy from endorsing candidates.<\/p>\n

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Warning that religious freedom is “under threat,” President Donald Trump vowed Thursday to repeal the Johnson Amendment, an IRS rule barring pastors from endorsing candidates from the pulpit.<\/p>\n

“I will get rid of and totally destroy the Johnson Amendment and allow our representatives of faith to speak freely and without fear of retribution,” Trump said during remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast, a high-profile event bringing together faith leaders, politicians and dignitaries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Remember this: 81% of white evangelicals voted for Trump last November — more<\/a> than voted for John McCain, George Bush, or Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n

The truth is always what people do: The past two weeks have shown plainly what the so-called Values Voters value, and it isn’t good for America.<\/p>\n

If Americans were serious about religious freedom, we’d end entirely the compulsory public subsidy of the little white church on the corner. Benjamin Franklin had it right:<\/p>\n

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When a Religion is good, I conceive that it will support itself; and, when it cannot support itself, and God does not take care to support, so that its Professors are oblig’d to call for the help of the Civil Power, it is a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well said. Churches ought to be taxed<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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