In 2008, the religious freedom legal nonprofit Alliance Defending Freedom launched “Pulpit Freedom Sunday,” an annual event held to raise awareness and protest the Johnson Amendment.
As part of the observance, hundreds of churches nationwide would film worship services in which pastors would discuss electoral politics from the pulpit, and then send the recordings to the IRS, in the hopes of creating a test case to get the measure struck down by the courts.
The Christian Post reached out to a couple of churches participating in Pulpit Freedom Sunday to get their perspectives on the IRS' decision to allow pastors to endorse candidates from the pulpit.
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