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Pastors nationwide defy IRS regulation, address politics on “Pulpit Freedom Sunday”
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Hundreds of preachers across America were politically disobedient Sunday, following in the footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as they publicly defied a 1954 law that gags them from preaching about politics. The law was authored by then-Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, angry that he had been denounced from the pulpit of two…
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