Patrick McIlheran has this post in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel discussing ADF’s Pulpit Initiative. He writes:
In terms of self-interest, I don’t want to be told who to vote for in church . . . and since when is it OK in this country for the government to rule there are certain political things certain people simply can’t say? . . .
The IRS’ discretion and unpredictability means many pastors just avoid public affairs, “fearful of coming anywhere near the line.”
One can say that’s good, except as governments’ purview swells to include more and more of life, this shrinks what is apolitical. Birth, death, marriage, what Jesus would have driven — all are now issues. Since the state no longer merely keeps us from hurting each other but presumes to tell us how to live, it breaches any wall of separation . . .
ADF attorney Erik Stanley is quoted.
