Erik Stanley: Get government out of our pulpits

ADF Attorney Erik Stanley writing in the Washington Examiner: “Since that day more than half a century ago, pastors have been increasingly censored by the Internal Revenue Service from speaking freely from their pulpits during election seasons. Pastors who firmly believe that their faith has something to say about the candidates running for office must now remain silent, or else risk losing their church’s tax-exempt status. In other words, for 55 years, the IRS has been authorized as a state speech police, monitoring — and censoring — what American pastors say to their congregations.”