Everything becomes terribly muddled, such that you can’t tell where one issue ends and the other begins. Because as soon as you think you have right and wrong figured out, you turn around to discover you’ve backed yourself into another unjust, overreaching law written by power-drunk congressmen and supported by meddling constituent factions.
Here comes a post from KipEsquire, of the libertarian blog A Stitch in Haste, about what he calls “an illegal and un-Christian stunt being planned by the theocrats at the Alliance Defense Fund.” Quoting the Washington Post:
Declaring that clergy have a constitutional right to endorse political candidates from their pulpits, the socially conservative Alliance Defense Fund is recruiting several dozen pastors to do just that on Sept. 28, in defiance of Internal Revenue Service rules… designed to trigger an IRS investigation that ADF lawyers would then challenge in federal court. The ultimate goal is to persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out a 54-year-old ban on political endorsements by tax-exempt houses of worship.
… to which Kip retorts: read more »
