{"id":2702,"date":"2025-07-08T09:09:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T16:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=2702"},"modified":"2025-07-08T10:37:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T17:37:59","slug":"sure-why-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2025\/07\/08\/sure-why-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Sure Why Not"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/07\/07\/us\/politics\/irs-churches-politics-endorse-candidates.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare\">God<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/07\/07\/us\/politics\/irs-churches-politics-endorse-candidates.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"243\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nocontest.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-08-at-9.06.34%E2%80%AFAM.png?resize=640%2C243&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nocontest.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-08-at-9.06.34%E2%80%AFAM.png?resize=1024%2C388&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nocontest.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-08-at-9.06.34%E2%80%AFAM.png?resize=300%2C114&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nocontest.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-08-at-9.06.34%E2%80%AFAM.png?resize=768%2C291&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nocontest.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-08-at-9.06.34%E2%80%AFAM.png?w=1272&amp;ssl=1 1272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The agency said that if a house of worship endorsed a candidate to its congregants, the I.R.S. would view that not as campaigning but as a private matter, like \u201ca family discussion concerning candidates.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">(<em>The title is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/\">a fine trope from Atrios<\/a>.<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God. The agency said that if a house of worship endorsed a candidate to its congregants, the I.R.S. would view that not as campaigning but as a private matter, like \u201ca family discussion concerning candidates.\u201d (The title is a fine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2025\/07\/08\/sure-why-not\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roberts-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2702"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2708,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions\/2708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}