jess_the_beheader

The federalism ship sailed long ago. Decades of expansive Supreme Court rulings have basically granted the Federal Government the ability to do pretty much whatever they choose to do. Even in cases where they can't do it directly, they've made the states so dependent upon federal funding, the Federal government regularly does some "carrot and stick" action of offering states grants to comply with the feds, and threatening to revoke other funding if they choose not to comply. Most recently, you can see that with the RealID stuff where states are getting arm twisted into complying with federal requirements for IDs because nobody wants to be the state whose drivers licenses no longer get people onto airplanes.

Never underestimate a religious leader's ability to take vaguely worded and unrelated sentences and apply the. To completely different modern concepts. Or for another religious leader to take the same concept and the same sentences and arrive at the polar opposite opinion.

Is this practice illegal or is it simply unethical? If it is illegal, which agency is supposed to audit these campaigns and have you reported them?