[EL] Is the FEC Chair encouraging churches to violate the Johnson Amendment?

[Marty Lederman]

https://religionnews.com/2020/09/17/head-of-federal-election-commission-calls-separation-of-church-and-state-a-fallacy-and-2020-election-a-spiritual-war/


FEC Chair Trey Trainor Calls U.S. Catholic Bishops Corrupt for Directives
> Limiting Church Political Activity (Trainor Also Attacks Mail Balloting)
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=115267>
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> Posted on September 16, 2020 7:12 am
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=115267> by *Rick Hasen*
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
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> Church Militant interviews Trey Trainor on video
> <https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vortex-bishops-ripped-by-federal-chairman>
> :
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> *The Marxist Left is going to have a complete and total meltdown over
> this. Church Militant sat down recently in our studios with the chairman of
> the Federal Election Commission, Trey Trainor
> <https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/exclusive-interview-trey-trainor> (a
> Trump appointee), who set the record straight. *
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> *This is blockbuster material because of its truthfulness and straight-up
> candor. The chairman of the Federal Election Commission is calling out the
> U.S. hierarchy for what amounts to deception. The motive? In short, the
> U.S. bishops have, in exchange for money, sold out their obligation to
> preach the truth.*
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> *Our Lord was right, of course. You cannot serve two masters, God and
> Mammon. You will either love one and despise the other or hate one and love
> the other. Chairman Trainor says the current practice of bishops silencing
> priests — like Fr. Altman — who call out Biden’s evil and pretending it’s
> about their non-profit status is simply a red herring.*
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> Trainor had posted some controversial religious statements before he was
> nominated for the FEC. See my Sept. 2014 post, “Trump FEC Pick’s Twitter
> Goes Dark After Users Spot Anti-Protestant Links.”
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=94807>
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