Expanding religious freedom is a defining issue for religious conservatives who propelled President Trump to the White House, and the centerpiece of Trump's religious freedom agenda is ending the 1950s-era law that says houses of worship can lose their tax-exempt status if they engage in partisan campaigning.
Indeed, Trump won't just overturn that ban — known as the Johnson Amendment — but, as he told the National Prayer Breakfast earlier this month, “I will get rid of and totally destroy” it.
Yet as could happen with any number of the president's grandiose pledges, this one may turn out to be more rhetoric than reality.
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