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Why government support for religion doesn’t necessarily make people more religious
Why government support for religion doesn’t necessarily make people more religious Government support for religion doesn’t necessarily make people more religious; in fact, it can have unintended consequences that decrease religious participation. The separation between church and state is intended to protect individual freedom of religion, but some conservatives argue that this separation hinders the […]
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IRS says churches may endorse political candidates despite a decades-old federal statute barring them from doing that
IRS says churches may endorse political candidates despite a decades-old federal statute barring them from doing that The IRS has announced that churches and other houses of worship can endorse political candidates without risking their tax-exempt status, contradicting a decades-old federal statute known as the Johnson Amendment. The Johnson Amendment, passed in 1954, prohibits charities […]
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