{"id":10453,"date":"2017-07-22T13:15:02","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T18:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=10453"},"modified":"2017-09-24T23:04:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T04:04:33","slug":"salting-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/07\/22\/salting-the-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Salting The Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been meaning to talk about this topic and continually forgetting, so forgive me for being a little out of date. The Richard Dawkins Foundation<\/strong><\/em> (for Reason & Science<\/strong><\/em>, to complete its unwieldy title), among many other outlets, reports<\/a> on the latest attempts by the GOP to kill the Johnson Amendment<\/em><\/a>, which I’ve written about before – short form, it’s the law that prohibits churches which have tax-free status from advocating for specific political candidates. Here’s the Dawkins Foundation<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

Republicans repeatedly have failed to scrap the law preventing churches and other nonprofits from backing candidates, so now they are trying to starve it. With little fanfare, a House Appropriations subcommittee added a provision that would deny money to the IRS to enforce the 63-year-old law to a bill to fund the Treasury Department, Securities and Exchange Commission and other agencies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First of all, it seems to me that this sort of attack on the law – and that’s what it is – is dishonorable and below the dignity of good-hearted legislators. The fact of the matter is that Congress once decided that the passion and fury of religion<\/a> should be muted when it comes to politics, for otherwise disaster may come of it. If Congress wishes to retract this judgment, it may do so – but to try to remove the funding for this law, even if it’s only rarely enforced, is underhanded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been meaning to talk about this topic and continually forgetting, so forgive me for being a little out of date. The Richard Dawkins Foundation (for Reason & Science, to complete its unwieldy title), among many other outlets, reports on the latest attempts by the GOP to kill the Johnson \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10453"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11936,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10453\/revisions\/11936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}