[tbw2]

The Houston mayor is saying that churches talking about homosexuality or LBGTA or gender identity in any capacity while the signature gathering was under way was electioneering, a violation of the tax rules that say churches are exempt as long as you don’t politic.

[Trentamj]

Based upon my experience and research, electioneering is a limited suppression of one's First Amendment right to free expression with regard to time and space. By time, I mean that electioneering laws apply only to voting day(s), and by space, I mean that electioneering laws limit one's right to advocate for a candidate of an issue to within 100-300 feet (depending on the State) from a polling/voting location or station.

So, the Houston mayor's charge that pastors were "electioneering" during a petition-drive -which is non-election process- is a blatantly inappropriate interpretation of electioneering laws, and the Houston pastors would be very wise to hire a lawyer to beat her illegal demands back.

[JimSEA]

That sounds suspiciously like using questionable limitations on religious subject matters to deny First Amendment rights.