Erik Stanley: Is the Pulpit Initiative a Bad Strategy?

ADF attorney Erik Stanley writes at the Christian Post Advancing Religious Liberyt Blog (via the Speak Up Movement Blog): “So why can’t ADF just file a prospective lawsuit against the IRS asking the Court to issue a declaratory judgment that the Johnson Amendment is unconstitutional as applied to a pastor’s sermon? Or why couldn’t ADF file a lawsuit against the IRS and ask the Court for an injunction to stop the IRS from applying the Johnson Amendment to a pastor’s sermon from the pulpit? The easy answer to why such a lawsuit would not work is that Congress has prohibited lawsuits against the IRS that seek either a declaratory judgment or an injunction.” | ADF Pulpit Initiative