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From Pat Buchanan’s Column:
Under The Houses of Worship Free Speech Restoration Act of 2005, the IRS code would be amended to permit priests, pastors and rabbis to express their “personal views on political matters or elections for public office during regular religious services, so long as these views are not disseminated beyond the members and guests assembled together at the service.”
Sunday services at black churches where candidates like Bill Clinton and John Kerry are embraced by preachers and pastors would be legal under U.S. law. But so, too, would sermons from the pulpit by Catholic priests and Christian pastors who told congregations that abortion is the slaughter of the innocent, homosexual marriage is an abomination and they should vote for the candidate, be it George Bush, who will oppose them.
What are we doing muzzling our religious leaders, who like the prophets of old have been ordained by God to hold rulers to account?
America was founded by men and women seeking religious freedom. The Bill of Rights begins with a command: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech.”
worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43395
Under The Houses of Worship Free Speech Restoration Act of 2005, the IRS code would be amended to permit priests, pastors and rabbis to express their “personal views on political matters or elections for public office during regular religious services, so long as these views are not disseminated beyond the members and guests assembled together at the service.”
Sunday services at black churches where candidates like Bill Clinton and John Kerry are embraced by preachers and pastors would be legal under U.S. law. But so, too, would sermons from the pulpit by Catholic priests and Christian pastors who told congregations that abortion is the slaughter of the innocent, homosexual marriage is an abomination and they should vote for the candidate, be it George Bush, who will oppose them.
What are we doing muzzling our religious leaders, who like the prophets of old have been ordained by God to hold rulers to account?
America was founded by men and women seeking religious freedom. The Bill of Rights begins with a command: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech.”
worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43395