Christian Taliban / Christian autocrats will be able to dictate to their sheeple which Christian supremacist to vote for.
aka, weaponized Freedom of Religion (to impose Christianity on non-Christians)
The new GOP tax reform bill would politicize churches
amending a part of the tax law that keeps churches from engaging in explicit political advocacy.
Embedded within the bill’s more than 400 pages is a small provision that would change an aspect of the so-called “Johnson Amendment,” a provision of the tax codes that prohibits churches, faith communities, and other non-profits from outright endorsing political candidates.
Under the Johnson Amendment, it is illegal (albeit rarely enforced) for a faith leader to, say, endorse a candidate from the pulpit. Some conservative leaders—including paragons of the Religious Right and Trump’s own lawyer Jay Sekulow—have long argued this law infringes on their freedom of speech or religion.
The GOP’s new bill appears to placate these concerns, using the following language:
“…An organization described in section 20 508(c)(1)(A) shall not fail to be treated as organized and operated exclusively for a religious purpose, nor shall it be deemed to have participated in, or intervened in any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office, solely because of the content of any homily, sermon, teaching, dialectic, or other presentation made during religious services or gatherings, but only if the preparation and presentation of such content—
(A) is in the ordinary course of the organization’s regular and customary activities in carrying out its exempt purpose, and
(B) results in the organization incurring not more than de minimis incremental expenses.’’”
https://thinkprogress.org/gop-tax-re...-215bd7f610c4/