Lankford: Pastors Should Have Free Speech Too - The Iowa Standard

Lankford: Pastors Should Have Free Speech Too - The Iowa Standard

By Joshua Arnold The Washington Stand The Free Speech Fairness Act, introduced Monday by Senator James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Rep. Mark Harris (R-N.C.), would neutralize the 1954 Johnson Amendment and “clarify” that “pastors have the same free speech rights as everyone else,” Lankford announced on “Washington Watch.” “We need to make sure this is very clear: the IRS doesn’t have the authority to go monitor the speech of pastors and of church lea…