first amendment

Evangelical Pastor Tests First Amendment Waters

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The notorious Alliance Defense Fund, which seeks to abrogate the establishment clause of the First Amendment, has recruited an evangelical minister to endorse a candidate for governor from the pulpit in hopes of taking his case all the way to the Supreme Court. Such advocacy, of course, violates the Johnson Amendment, which prohibits any 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization from making political endorsements.

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Christian Lawyers Claim Religious Persecution

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The Christian Legal Society has sued Hastings College of Law for its refusal to recognize their group as an official campus club, claiming their freedom to practice their faith is being challenged. An expert on church-state separation law says the case is more about the religious right’s “political moxie” to claim religious persecution than about religious liberty.

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