"Do all of you agree that corporations and citizens should not be able to funnel dark money through churches in order to get into political campaigns?"
"I think that what they perceive is that the repeal of the so-called Johnson Amendment is an attempt to open up a gaping hole in the law for super divine dark money to pour through into the political s..."
"the Hobby Lobby case dangerously opens the idea that churches are political organizations"
"The First Amendment is the First Amendment for a reason."
"I mean, that's a miracle of nature. That's remarkable in the United States of America."
"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..."
"the vast majority of the American people have accepted the idea that churches should not be political slush funds"
"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."
"I think Rabbi Saperstein's with me on this."
"I think fundamentally that less government is better."