New Religious Liberty Order Disappoints Conservative Christians

If anything, the new executive order highlights a constraint on churches that the IRS has been loth to apply over the years. For nearly a decade, annual taunts from congregations have been hand-delivered to the IRS in the form of video evidence they are breaking the rule against candidate-advocacy. But the IRS has remained stoically impassive as the gadflies have tried to spur them to attack, prudently avoiding a fight that would give churches an excuse to cry discrimination. So even the mild limit on pulpit advocacy in the Johnson amendment has gone all-but-unenforced over the years, making Mr Trump's order something decidedly less exciting than weak tea.