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• Pastors should have the right to
promote legislation and endorse politics from behind the pulpit. The lack of freedom
of speech from the pulpit is due to current law and is the cause of suppression of speech
and government intervention in the church. The original intent of the
Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and the First Amendment has Christian
overtones. Misinterpretation of the First Amendment leads to laws and court decisions
that do not coincide with what the Fore Fathers intended. Change needs to be made through
church activism. Christian morality
needs to be recognized, and a new law needs to be passed. Once people are able to recognize
religion’s place in history and in the government, they will understand the importance of
its freedom for which this country stands. Once this is understood, people can work
together to make sure that those who stand behind pulpits can have the same freedoms as those
who do not.