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[โ€“] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Churches backing and funding politicians.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It is illegal to a degree, it violates rules and regulations with the IRS. When they back a politician, they are supposed to lose their church non-profit status. But that doesn't happen because any move to it would cause a huge "the government is attacking out religious freedoms/churchs".

In fact it's now a religious event every year called "Pulpit Freedom Sunday" to purposefully break these laws.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

That's true for the US but not everywhere else