Horwitz (and Mayer) on church autonomy and "pulpit freedom Sunday"

Check out this post (which has a nice shout-out to this article, by my colleague Lloyd Mayer) by Paul Horwitz on the church-autonomy principle and "pulpit freedom Sunday."

As I wrote in the comments to Paul's post, I agree with him (I think) that the notion of there being *some* limit on the political activities of tax-exempt organizations, including churches, is not itself inconsistent with "church autonomy" / "the freedom of the church."  At the same time, I also think there are fuzzy, "yay for pluralism and diversity among civil-society institutions that serve as checks on government power" reasons for thinking that we should give even tax-exempt religious institutions a lot of lee-way in this area.

For more, see my "A Quiet Faith?  Taxes, Politics, and the Privatization of Religion" (here).