Sentences with phrase «candidates during church»
Since the 1950s, the IRS has banned preachers from endorsing candidates during church services.
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Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore was interrupted as he addressed sexual misconduct allegations during a speech at a Baptist church in Theodore, Alabama on November 29.
For what it's worth, LifeWay Research conducted a poll during the 2016 campaign that found 73 percent of evangelical Americans said pastors should abstain from endorsing candidates, and 65 percent said churches should abstain.
@ Bill Deacon, Sorry Bill, but during the last last Bush election, the catholic church ordered their membership to vote against the democratic candidate in violation of their 501c3 status, not support a candidate but an order.
In fact, only about one - third of white evangelicals (37 %) and about half of black Protestants (45 %) believe that churches should endorse candidates during elections.
In both surveys, LifeWay asked Americans to respond to the following statement: «I believe it is appropriate for pastors to publicly endorse candidates for public office during a church service.»
New York candidate for governor Cynthia Nixon speaks during her first campaign stop at the Bethesda Healing Center Church Tuesday in Brooklyn.
During a closing round of questions that required the candidates to answer yes or no, a rule that they tended to violate, Quinn and Albanese said that churches should be barred from holding worship services in city schools.