“What we’re fighting for is democracy,” Texas state Rep. Barbara Gervin-Hawkins said Sunday.

She didn’t say this at a news conference or in a committee hearing or a TV interview. She spoke the words in a Chicago church, with the blessing of Father Michael Pfleger who heads St. Sabina on the South Side of the city.

Can a house of worship really serve two masters? Those being God — and overtly partisan politics?

The answer, as your Sunday school teacher might have told you, is a firm “no.”

Her appearance raises an old but urgent question: Where is the line between preaching moral truth and campaigning from the pulpit? This one’s a little more complicated than a simple “amen” or “no way.”

Gervin-Hawkins, who fled her home state, was speaking about her efforts to avoid a redistricting pus

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