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Religious groups back bill exempting them from campaign disclosure rules

Religious organizations would be exempt from reporting political activities as required by Montana’s campaign finance laws under legislation inspired by a local church’s fight against Montana’s top elections watchdog in 2004. Under Senate Bill 162, tax-exempt religious groups’ political communications would be excluded from Montana s definitions of campaign contributions, election communications, electioneering communications or political expenditures. It s carried by Sen. David Howard, R-Park City. Chad Hesler, a senior pastor at Canyon Ferry Road Baptist Church in East Helena, told the Senate State Administration Committee on Monday that the legislation “follows in the footsteps of Thomas Jefferson to limit the intrusion of government into the well-being of mankind, which is the essential role of religion.”

In Virtual Exchange, Women Organizers Share Challenges and Successes From COVID Frontlines

Coronavirus Coverage Margaret Sedziafa (left) and Ayo Ayoola-Amale, leaders from the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Chapter in Ghana, distribute supplies in Tema, a suburb of Accra. Photo: Margaret Sedziafa From the ‘shadow pandemic’ of gender-based violence to the burdens of balancing greater care responsibilities, the gendered impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are increasingly clear and well-documented. In many ways, the story of the last year illuminates the ways in which individual women and women-led organizations have, through their daily work, sustained families, communities, and societies at-large through crises. History cautions, though, that even while women are repeatedly lauded for their resilience during crises, the specific forms of knowledge and skills that they contribute are too often forgotten when periods of crisis eventually subside.

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