This past Sunday, roughly 100 ministers around the country stepped into their pulpits to break the law.
The pastors, with the backing of the conservative Christian nonprofit, Alliance Defense Fund, planned to challenge what is legally-acceptable speech within tax-exempt organizations in what they called Pulpit Freedom Sunday.
In particular, the pastors planned to test the boundaries of political speech. Since the 1950s, tax-exempt agencies are barred from, among other political activities, endorsing or opposing candidates, or, according to one IRS publication, devoting "a substantial part of their activities to attempting to influence legislation."
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