…many #conservative #Christian activists—as well as some independent legal scholars—saw it as a violation of the #FirstAmendment’s guarantee of #FreeSpeech.
“Putting the #IRS inside what a #church says is a bad fit for the IRS, or even for government,” said Benjamin Leff, a law prof at American University who has argued that the #law should be more forgiving. He believes that #nonprofits should be allowed to say what they want, but not allowed to spend significant #money to get that message out.