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How conservative Christians cracked a 70-year-old law

“Now churches are free,” said Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council. “The leash is gone.”

(Eric Thayer | The New York Times) Worshippers at King Jesus ministry during a speech by President Donald Trump in Miami on Friday, Jan. 3, 2020. The IRS recently said that churches could endorse candidates from the pulpit — the latest in a string of triumphs for conservative Christian groups leveraging their alliance with Donald Trump to redraw boundaries between church and state.

(Eric Thayer | The New York Times) Worshippers at King Jesus ministry during a speech by President Donald Trump in Miami on Friday, Jan. 3, 2020. The IRS recently said that churches could endorse candidates from the pulpit — the latest in a string of triumphs for conservative Christian groups leveraging their alliance with Donald Trump to redraw boundaries between church and state.

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