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May 23, 2017

Government Shouldn’t Be Responsible for Keeping Politics away from the Pulpit

The Jewish case against the Johnson Amendment.

A few weeks ago, the White House encouraged federal agencies to be less than zealous about enforcing the Johnson Amendment, a 1954 piece of legislation that forbids non-profit organizations from advocating political or policy positions lest they lose their tax-exempt status or even be prosecuted for tax fraud. Mitchell Rocklin argues that Jews of all denominations should encourage the law’s repeal:

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