On June 10, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee addressed a pastor’s conference in Houston, Texas, prior to the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention. Here is what he had to say about calls from some Republicans for the party to weaken its stance on abortion, marriage and other moral issues.
Your Church Can Sign Up for Pulpit Freedom Sunday 2013
Pulpit Freedom Sunday is a movement of pastors boldly preaching biblical truth on the cultural, social, and political issues of the day.
Pulpit Freedom Sunday started in 2008 as a challenge to the Johnson Amendment. Since 1954, the Johnson amendment has unconstitutionally empowered the government to decide what a pastor can and cannot say from the pulpit; and it has bee intimidating pastors into silence on issues they might otherwise have addressed from Scripture. That is changing. Last year over 1,600 pastors nationwide participated in Pulpit Freedom Sunday—and this year that number will surely grow–as this year Pulpit Freedom Sunday is all about marriage.
From Alliance Defending Freedom:
Alliance Defending Freedom made public Monday audio of a phone conversation that the Internal Revenue Service placed to a non-profit organization that provides support to women in abusive pregnancy situations. In the recorded phone conversation, an IRS agent lectures the president of the organization about forcing its religion and beliefs on others and inaccurately explains that the group must remain neutral on issues such as abortion.