Family Research Council Action President Tony Perkin has a word on the fight for religious freedom against left-wing tyranny.
Pastors, Pulpits and Politics
Our friends at the Alliance Defense Fund have decided to underscore hypocrisy of ironic proportions. They are receiving all kinds of pressure from media outlets today about their announced plans to encourage pastors to openly endorse candidates from the pulpits between now and the November 4 elections. Many churches have been doing far more than this in America's inner cities for years with nary a peep. But the media, attempting to enshrine a rigid doctrine of "separation of church and state," miss the point entirely. The core idea of "separation of church and state" has been to PROTECT the church FROM the state. The church is allowed, like any other private organization or group of people, to be as actively involved in what happens to our nation as any other entity. The federal law that bars such expression does not date to Thomas Jefferson and the founding, but to Lyndon B. Johnson and his effort to restrain a charity from opposing his electoral ambitions. The constitutionality of that political interference in the church has never been tested. That time may be at hand.
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