This is going to a very short post: I just wanted to share an article I read about a bill proposed in both the Senate and House that you probably won't hear much, if anything, about. The article is titled, "Trump Promise to End IRS Monitoring of Pastor Sermons Introduced as Bill in House", and it is from The Christian Post.
House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana and Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., were responsible for introducing the bill, "The Free Speech Fairness Act." The proposed bill would amend the Johnson Amendment of 1954. The article explains both The Free Speech Fairness Act and the Johnson Amendment of 1954 fairly well.
It is important to me that churches' First Amendment rights are protected from government intrusion. The IRS should not monitor sermons. I say this not out of paranoia, but out of concern: if a government agency is allowed to dictate what pastors preach, then we move dangerously near to government controlled religion and you don't want that. Read the book Tortured for Christ by Richard Wurmbrand to see a little glimpse of that. China is another example of government controlled religion. And North Korea is an example of an atheist state where religion is illegal.
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