Fine print: GOP tax bill repeals a law barring churches from endorsing political candidates

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5. No, they don't.

Religious leaders who are worth anything know darned well how dangerous church state entanglement is. They don't want the state dictating to them any more than we want religions dictating to the state. Government intrusion into religion or a national religion are definitely unwelcome by most clergy.

The Christian nationalists and politically oriented evangelicals are louder, more organized, and already embedded with the GOP. The participants in crap like "Justice Sunday" do not represent the feelings of religious leaders in general. Nor are they remotely a majority of religious leaders in this country.

Ask clergy from other denominations of Christianity and other religions, and you will get a very different answer. I cannot think of a single one of my colleagues in the ministry who want to see the Johnson Amendment rolled back.

ETA: By colleagues I am referring to an inter-faith community, not simply clergy within my own denomination.