{"id":26965,"date":"2017-11-30T10:05:21","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T15:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=26965"},"modified":"2017-12-01T07:53:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T12:53:34","slug":"this-will-be-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=26965","title":{"rendered":"This will be great"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Religion don't mean a thing<br \/>\nIt's just another way to be right-wing<br \/>\n-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CeZldPSFfTI\">Spoon, <i>Jonathon Fisk<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/26\/us\/politics\/johnson-amendment-churches-taxes-politics.html?_r=0\">For years, a coalition<\/a> of well-funded groups on the religious right have waged an uphill battle to repeal a 1954 law that bans churches and other nonprofit groups from engaging in political activity.<\/p>\n<p>Now, those groups are edging toward a once-improbable victory as Republican lawmakers, with the enthusiastic backing of President Trump, prepare to rewrite large swaths of the United States tax code as part of the $1.5 trillion tax package moving through Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Among the changes in the tax bill that passed the House this month is a provision to roll back the 1954 ban, a move that is championed by the religious right, but opposed by thousands of religious and nonprofit leaders, who warn that it could blur the line between charity and politics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe they can set things up so that the congregations' tithings go straight to the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>Or, perhaps having to sit through political lectures from preachers will be so terrible that people will abandon organized religion for good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religion don't mean a thing It's just another way to be right-wing -Spoon, Jonathon Fisk For years, a coalition of well-funded groups on the religious right have waged an uphill battle to repeal a 1954 law that bans churches and other nonprofit groups from engaging in political activity. Now, those groups are edging toward a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26965"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26975,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26965\/revisions\/26975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}