From Just the News:
Former White House Chief of Staff and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said that pastors need to stop being gun shy when talking about politics at the pulpit.
"Our churches cannot be, you know, vanilla ice cream and cotton candy on Sunday morning. We have to challenge our congregations and challenge them with a very least participate in the process," Priebus told David Brody.
Priebus joined Brody on The Pod's Honest Truth and Chad Connelly, the former chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party and head of the group Faith Wins, an organization dedicated to getting faith leaders encourage congregations vote with Biblical values in mind.
In 2013, Priebus, then RNC chair, tapped Connelly to serve as the group’s first-ever director of faith engagement. Priebus and Connelly have joined forces once again to mobilize some 10,000 churches around the country about the importance of their involvement in the public arena.
Pastors have walked a fine line between offering pastoral leadership and harsh criticism when talking about politics. Since 1954, the Johnson Amendment has banned non-profit organizations and churches from supporting political candidates, which President Trump opposes.
Priebus, part of the president's larger faith-based outreach efforts in Trump's re-election campaign, said that shouldn't stop religious leaders from -- at a minimum -- being involved in the political process.
https://justthenews.com/video/reince-priebus-time-religious-leaders-stop-shying-away-politics
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[–] tweety51 ago
This is good advice except when church's became beholden to the government with their 501c3 status they gave up their right to talk politics from the pulpit. This is why Mark Taylor encourages churches to get away from the 501c3s and form home churches. It's funny but certain liberal churches (ie. Rev Wright) have been pretty vocal from the pulpit but that doesn't seem to work for more mainstream evangelicals. It's the old "rules for thee, not for me" that dictates the left's behavior...as usual.