As I was reading the blogs this morning, I stumbled across Bill Reichart’s blog post about Pulpit Freedom Sunday. Here is the comment that I added to the discussion there.

My wife works for a secular non-profit advocating on specific legislation related to the beliefs of members of the organization.

As such, they regularly speak about issues that matter to them, but cannot endorse specific candidates.

If they wish to endorse specific candidates, they need to change their status from being a non-profit 501(c)3 to being a taxable 527.

Leaders and their members are free to say whatever they want. However, if they engage in electoral politics they lose their tax exemption.

I believe that the same should apply to any organization, no matter what their beliefs, and organizations that willfully and flagrantly violate the tax code should lose their tax exemption.

If pastors want to chose who the next Caesar will be, then they should render onto Caesar what is Caesar's.