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State Sen. David Howard (R-Park City) (Facebook page) may think so. He’s asked for a bill, LC1942, with the short title of “Referendum to exempt religious communications from campaign finance reports.”
What kind of religious communications? A sermon urging the preacher’s congregants to pray for good government is one thing. But if that church spends $2,000 for a mailer telling voters “God wants you to vote for Charlie Jones,” that expenditure belongs in a campaign finance report.
We’ll have to wait until LC1942’s text is available before we know for sure whether Howard wants to help churches use dark money to send the political light. But if that’s his objective, some will say “Lord, help us.”