The day before President Trump used his remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast to promise a repeal of the Johnson Amendment, a bill was introduced in Congress to effectively do that.
“The Free Speech Fairness Act” is being touted as a “fix” to the Johnson Amendment, a 1954 law that prohibits nonprofits from engaging in politics. But how much of a “fix” would the act be? Would it offer a First Amendment right of free speech to clergy — or trample the same First Amendment's guarantee of a separation between church and state?
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