On Sunday, October 2, the Revival Assembly Church in Manchester, N.H., was one of the 539 churches around the country participating in Pulpit Freedom Sunday, an increasingly popular form of civil disobedience on the religious right. Pastor Chris Anu urged the 80 parishioners in his Pentecostal church to reject same-sex marriage as an abomination and to insist on being able to pray in schools and other public places. He didn’t endorse a political candidate, but, as he told the Forward afterward, “the need will come when we have national elections.”
It’s not clear whether Pastor Anu’s sermon that Sunday actually violated the federal law that prohibits non-for-profit churches and charities from engaging in political activities. But he sure intends to flout that law in the future.
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