OH PLEASE! NO MORE POLITICS!

Some days politics are particulary disgusting. This may apply in churches too; especially during political campaigns. I read in the paper today where the Alliance Defense Fund, which employs 40 lawyers, is encouraging conservative churches to violate the non-profit tax laws by supporting preferred candidates from the pulpit. Someone has apparently forgotten to render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's. Now what if they do get away with this protest? After all before 1954, it was legal to praise or demonize a politician from the pulpit. Most people will not sue a church even when they deserve it. (Catholic priest problems excepted.) It seems to me that the reason for the change in the law was a valid one. If a church is tax exempt, then it has no right, I think, to become what is almost a PAC. Furthermore, how long do you think it would take for the legislature to decide that if the churches were going to proselytise for candidates, they ought to forget about being tax exempt and pony up with the rest of us? Aside from the possibility of loosing that lucrative exemption, there is also what the Bible says about spreading opinion or gossip as if it was truth. It does not matter what side you are on, there are plenty of unkind things to be said about all the candidates since they, like us, are poor human specimens. Frankly, I would be willing to bet that the intention is to damn more than to praise. What do you think?
Furthermore, while I am on my hobbyhorse, let's talk about immigration. My people all managed to get here legally, become citizens, although they too did not have a pot, and actually learned to "speaka da egalish". My grandmother had four sons: two marines, one sailor and one dog face soldier. Most of their grandchildren went to college and or had the ability to take care of their families without requiring the government to help. From that perspective, I really do resent my tax dollars supporting half of the Mexican population. (exaggeration is part of poetic license.)
However, I must say that it is most discouraging to consistently read articles about picking up illegals and how that is supposed to solve the problem. I say BOLOGNA! The day the congress decides that it really wants these illegal workers to leave, it will come down very hard on the pockets of the people who hire them. I suggest we start in Texas. California; aah dem big money places. When it is no longer a good financial idea to hire these people and keep them in quasi slavery, the problem will disappear magically. As for the problem of the illegal workers already here, Germany seems to have a lot of them. Their legal system handles it. Why don't we ask them how they do it? Ok. I'm off the soap box, but it does just ....I had better stop here or I will be throwing down my Ohio State Hat and stomping on it!