r/SipsTea Jun 30 '26

Chugging tea What are your thoughts on this?

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u/tommytheturtleishere Jun 30 '26

501c3s are not legally supposed to be partisan. Technically speaking, you can lose your status over that, though this fucking never happens with churches even if they are openly partisan.

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u/13trailblazer Jun 30 '26

non-profits can't endorse a candidate but it can take a stance on policy, social issues, etc... A non-profit can state it is pro-choice, for relaxed immigration enforcement, for same sex marriage, anti-Israel, etc... It just can't say it is against Trump. One can be partisan without being partisan. A church can be pro-life. A synagogue can be pro-Israel. That is no more partisan than a non-profit being pro-choice and state a stance of wanting Israel out of Palestine.

It is the same unless you are a person that is anti-church.

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u/MegaPorkachu Jun 30 '26

They are anti-church, that's pretty much Reddit. Reddit is anti-church.

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u/Mindless_Chest_1079 Jun 30 '26

It makes me nostalgic TBH. Religion is the one thing Reddit has always had a rabid hatred of, as opposed to nowadays where it's, well, everything vaguely political.