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𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑚 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑢𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐽𝑜ℎ𝑛𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑐ℎ.

The conservative pastors arguing this have a fundamental misunderstanding of free speech. They believe that free speech means conservatives should be allowed to say absolutely anything they want to anywhere they want and at any time they want without any consequences. Of course, they have no problem with consequences for everyone they don't like suffering consequences for saying things they don't like. I notice that this bill would apply to 𝗮𝗹𝗹 nonprofits. If it were to pass, what would stop Planned Parenthood from endorsing any Democrat for president? Naturally the far right assholes would then claim that endorsing a pro-choice candidate is way out of the scope of a pro-choice organizations ordinary course of its activities, while claiming that it is well within the ordinary course of a conservative church's activities to actively promote Republicans because they share the same force-birth views.

Why would we expect anything other than hypocrisy at this point?

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Oh, pity the poor pastors. They want to illegally engage in politics from their pulpits, while suffering no consequences and paying no taxes. This is an attempt to institutionalize Christian privilege. It is never the job of our secular government to backstop anyone's religion. American Christians have got to rank among the least persecuted people on earth but you would never know that to listen to them.

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