Complaints Filed on Pulpit Freedom Sunday

We're finally starting to see substantive reports and reaction to yesterday's Pulpit Freedom Sunday.

In case you missed it, dozens of churches and pastors across the country yesterday stood up to the unconstitutional 1954 tax code amendment sponsored by Senator Lyndon B. Johnson to silence his political enemies--which has since muzzled America's pastors from speaking out about political candidates who stand for truth...or about those who stand for immoral public policy.

The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), which is the Christian response to the ACLU, will be defending those churches who exercised their constitutional freedom of religious expression yesterday.

God-haters from groups such as the "Reverend" Barry Lynn's Americans United for the Separation of Church and State tried to stop the event before it happened, perhaps because they desperately hoped to keep churches intimidated by government thugs and thus morally muzzled.

But Pulpit Freedom Sunday went off, and the God-haters are predictably incensed.

From LifeNews:

"This is one of the most appalling Religious Right gambits I've ever seen. Church leaders are supposed to tend to Americans’ spiritual needs, not behave like partisan political hacks. I urge the IRS to act swiftly in these cases," he added.

I suppose Lynn wants to reserve "partisan hackery" for secularists such as himself. Undermine America's moral fabric: go for it! Try to preserve it: no way, that's a violation of the imaginary "wall of separation of church and state"! Nice little one-way racket the secularists have.

I do agree with Lynn on one thing, in that I hope the IRS acts swiftly! I want to see us about the business of getting rid of this unconstitutional muzzle American pastors have endured for over 50 years and get the government back out of our pulpits.

For most of American history, churches and pastors have had the freedom to speak out not only on ballot initiatives as they currently can, but also about politicians who either support or oppose moral public policy.

This tradition dates back to the American Revolution, through the abolitionist movement and through the civil rights movement.

Churches have always been tax exempt throughout American history because it was recognized that the power to tax is the power to control...and the power to destroy, thus amounting to an unconstitutional restriction on the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

ADF attorney Erik Stanley previously commented on the campaign.

"For so long, there has been this cloud of intimidation over the church. It is the job of the pastors of America to debate the proper role of church in society. It's not for the government to mandate the role of church in society," he said.

Indeed. The church is the conscience of our society...and given the advanced state of moral decay present in our society, it should be obvious that this conscience has been quashed for far too long.

Let's hope these complaints are expedited. The sooner they are overturned for the unconstitutional government interference that they are, the better!