Increasingly, Trump is making this issue the cornerstone of his outreach to the Religious Right. On the stump, Trump waves his arms and screams that the federal law that bars tax-exempt, non-profit groups (including houses of worship) from endorsing or opposing candidates for public office silences the voice of the religious community.
Trump then promises to get rid of the “Johnson Amendment.” The provision is named after Lyndon B. Johnson, who inserted it into law in 1954 when he was a U.S. senator.....
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