The First Amendment is the First Amendment for a reason.

the vast majority of the American people have accepted the idea that churches should not be political slush funds

This is not about being able--George Soros being able to channel millions of dollars from a not-for-profit through churches or synagogues or mosques into politics.

I think Rabbi Saperstein's with me on this.

the First Amendment doesn't need a fairness act. The First Amendment is supreme to any statute we might pass.

Since then, churches and other c(3)'s have had to decide whether or not to directly violate the law and risk potentially losing their tax status altogether...

I mean, that's a miracle of nature. That's remarkable in the United States of America.

We must never forget those great words: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...

But it's up to them. We agree under the First Amendment, they define their religion any way they want.

You think it's constitutional to ban that.

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So just to get you straight there, they are using your website essentially as the framework to access their victims.

Do we need to create an ombudsperson, somebody who is just a champion of the students and the graduates to make sure that they are not getting ripped off?

I get complaints on a daily basis pretty much from my constituents who feel like the whole system is a scam.

But how do they profit from it? They take over the student's account?

The overall institutional sense that I get is one of basic passivity and reactivity to events rather than getting on top of it.

It looks like we've got the classic tragedy of the commons problem, where you've got a common-shared resource that, if everybody were left to their own individual devices and interests, then we would rapidly be depleted.

But when we look at the video footage that Congressman Scott offered us...

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