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Those are spiritual issues. theyve been made political. so what we have like we saw in houston a few years ago where those issues were declared strictly political and pastors had their sermons subpoenaed by government officials. these issues predate government. the church predates government and longstanding tradition in this country has been until the the 1950s when the johnson amendment was added, that pastors and churches can speak freely. this goes back to pastors paul and john, were account...

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The dark money aspect of this has not been fully explored. i think its extremely troubling. we dont want our houses of worship turned into political action committees. in fact, all the polling data on this shows the american people are absolutely against the idea of churches being able to endorse or oppose candidates and being partisan because they dont think thats what churches are for. in fact, the one thing people like about a church or house of worship is that you can get away from the red/b...

Is religion freedom under threat? thats what president trump claimed this weekend at a prayer breakfast and promised to repeal the johnson amendment that regulates what tax exempt organizations like churches can do in the political arena. >> i will get rid of and totally destroy the johnson amendment and allow our representatives of faith to speak freely and without fear of retribution. i will do that. remember. >> but the "new york times" suggests he was throwing a bone to evangelicals when he ...

Because youre not getting what you were looking for from him on the lgbt rollback from president obama? >> not at all. the president talked about this throughout the entire campaign. it was in the republican party platform. i was on the platform committee. actually amended the platform to make clear the repeal in the johnson amendment. by the way, it was reintroduced into congress by the majority whip on wednesday, the day before the prayer breakfast. thats the reason the president mentioned it....

>> i dont see why we even need to worry about it. thanks to harry reid, the one thing that he did in his career, he created this nuclear option. so i dont think that anybody is worried that gorsuch is not going to get in. leyland: not worried at all? >> no, i think that the democrats, unfortunately, have opted to be the party of anger, and protest, and so theyre going to kick and scream because they dont have the votes and think what can we do to gin up our base so dont lose face with our people...

Government. the church predates government. and longstanding tradition in this country has been until the 1950s when the johnson amendment was added, was that pastors and churches can speak freely. this goes back to the a pos stale paul or peter and john who said, look, youre not going to regulate what we say. were accountable to god, not to some government bureaucrat. >> . . . . >> final point. i dont know it says this in the good book. be careful what you wish for. has it determined that in a ...

>> rob boston, thank you for the expertise. appreciate it. >> my next guest, tony perkins, welcome back. do you feel that the president came to that prayer breakfast and stressed his desire to get rid of the johnson amendment because youre not getting what you were looking for from him on the lgbt rollback from president obama? >> not at all. the president talked about this throughout the entire campaign. it was in the republican party platform, i was on the platform committee, amended the platf...

Lyndon johnson of texas for opposing political candidates at the risk of losing their tax-exempt status and repealing the law would require an approval because its in the tax code. >> i dont think that status. it will require approval from congress. >> i dont think thats going to happen. >> jeremy pets has more reportg on this. what is the likelihood of destroying the johnson amendment? >> its going to be a high bar to clear in congress. thats because there are a lot of republicans who will vote...

Impact of it, that he is going to get rid of it. it is something that may seem esoteric to a lot of people but its not. >> martha: the fear is in some areas, some groups of people, lgbtq communities, who stake in what happens next for you have a religious hospital, an organization that might chill on hiring people who have certain elements of their life that they might object to. >> that has nothing to do with the johnson amendment. this is about whether or not nonprofit organizations can speak ...