They weren’t. That’s my point. They also weren’t promoting others for office. They were promoting ideals.Because I read books.C’mon dude, I was pretty specific in what I wrote. Stop trying to argue it was something more.Ouch. I had thought you were on the other side of this. Guess not.No. I want to place restrictions on religion and politics from colluding.
You really want government telling a church what it can and can’t say to it’s congregation? If you take the existence of taxation out of this, all that says is that you support the suppression of free speech. The tax aspect of this is what has muddied the waters for way too long.
We have great examples from our history of churches debating social issues. None of the founders tried to promote themselves when they were promoting ideals.
how do you know what they did 230 yrs ago???
Ben Franklin and Daniel Webster were big abolitionists who got that message out through the churches. Which was pretty much how all social issues were discussed.
what political office were they running for???
and do you have transcripts of every conversation they ever had in and around a church???
NO YOU DONT,,,so stop acting like you do,,,