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Article: Partisan preachment: TV preacher Falwell pushes churches toward politics, but Americans United is fighting back.
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- Church & State
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- November 1, 2004
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Jerry Falwell Jr. may not be as bellicose as his televangelist father, but he still offers up some of the same warped understanding of the First Amendment.
After researching what Thomas Jefferson really believed about the separation of church and state, Falwell Jr. said recently, he discovered that the Founding Father did not believe in the "type of separation of church and state that is being promoted today." Speaking at the "Super Conference 2004" hosted by his father's Thomas Road Baptist Church, he encouraged churches to aggressively support candidates for political office, despite federal tax law barring electioneering by houses of worship.
"Thomas ...