[Lekooks] Fwd: ACT TODAY: Tell Your Members of Congress To Protect the Johnson Amendment!

Wed Dec 12 07:01:23 CST 2018

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The Johnson Amendment is a provision in the U.S. tax code, since 1954, that prohibits all 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations from endorsing or opposing political candidates. Section 501(c)(3) organizations are the most common type of nonprofit organization in the United States, ranging from charitable foundations to universities and churches. The amendment is named for then-Senator Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, who introduced it in a preliminary draft of the law in July 1954. 
This Amendment is necessary to prevent churches from becoming tax-exempt political action committees for political candidates, which would be very unfair to the taxpayers in general. Please take the action below to let your representatives in Congress know your position on this.
Thank you,
Gerry Flakas

-----Original Message-----
From: Maggie Garrett, Americans United <americansunited at au.org>
To: Gerald Flakas <gerflak at aol.com>
Sent: Tue, Dec 11, 2018 3:03 pm
Subject: ACT TODAY: Tell Your Members of Congress To Protect the Johnson Amendment!

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 Dear Gerald,

Once again, Congressional Republicans are waging war on the Johnson Amendment – the federal law that bars nonprofits, including houses of worship, from intervening in elections by endorsing or opposing candidates. Just last month we urged Congress not to include language in a must-pass government funding bill that would undermine the Johnson Amendment.

That effort remains a real threat. But even as we fend it off, Republicans have opened up another front in their war by inserting language to gut the Johnson Amendment in a year-end tax bill.

Tell your members of Congress today to protect the Johnson Amendment!

 This is yet another attempt to appease the Religious Right and President Donald Trump, who vowed to “get rid of and totally destroy the Johnson Amendment.”

But that’s not what Americans want. Americans want to protect the integrity of charitable nonprofits that serve the public good. They don’t want their houses of worship corrupted by partisan campaign politics. It’s time Congress started listening.

We need your voice today. Contact your members of Congress and urge them not to include the provision that guts the Johnson Amendment in the tax bill!

Thank you for standing up for the Johnson Amendment and church-state separation,

 Maggie Garrett
 AU Vice President for Public Policy

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