Baptist News Global: Trump administration says it won’t enforce Johnson Amendment

“This move represents a grave threat to healthy boundaries between government and religion,” said Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons, vice president of programs and strategy at Interfaith Alliance. “It aims to heavily politicize the pulpit and could turn some religious institutions and organizations into thinly veiled fronts for partisan groups and candidates.

“Current law strikes the right balance, allowing tax-exempt houses of worship to engage in moral advocacy, but not to tell their congregations who they should or should not vote for. This radical change is clearly part of the Trump administration’s broader attempt to co-opt and weaponize organized religion as a tool of partisan political power.”

View the full article here.