religious congregations — which are technically supposed to keep electoral politics out of the pulpit

Why would large, well-organized, ideologically unified groups of people stay out of electoral politics?

Aren’t these exactly the kinds of organizations you’d expect to be hip deep in political organizing and activism?

The movement poses a danger to democracy

I have to say that I think their views are often shit. But they are fundamentally popular shit. Hardly antidemocratic.

Liberals would do well to fight fire with fire. Attend big social groups. Organize with your neighbors. Raise money, run candidates, and enforce ideological orthodoxy as a condition of membership.

Hoping that some rules lawyers at the IRS are going to make Houston’s Second Baptist Church go away seems both foolish and unproductive.