Alliance Defense Fund

Republicans and conservative Democrats on Tuesday used a Senate Committee viewed as a friendly forum to seriously endanger domestic partnership legislation. Before sending the legislation on to Senate Judiciary Committee a 5-4 vote, the Senate Public Affairs Committee approved sending the 816-page bill to a third committee, the kiss of death during a 30-day session.

Despite the political endorsements of about two dozen pastors from their pulpits on September 28, including one in Rio Rancho, most Americans think politics should be kept out of churches.
A survey conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life in August found that the majority of Americans — 66 percent — oppose political [...]

While it appears no New Mexico clergy members took up a conservative group’s encouragement to endorse a political candidate on Sunday, nearly three dozen pastors across the country did endorse someone and flouted a federal tax law, the Washington Post reports.
 
The paper highlights a pastor in Indiana who told his congregation that voting for Barack [...]

The so-called “Pulpit Initiative,” an effort by the conservative Alliance Defense Fund, is encouraging pastors nationwide to embrace their First Amendment rights and endorse political candidates this Sunday.