",,, no reason why a church should be allowed to endorse ... talk about the electorate voting with its informed conscience...."
African Americans church communities, however, do both: endorse a candidate and attempt to cultivate informed consciences among their believers. They don't have an identity crisis over this, either. In the last campaign, some African American pastors felt very comfortable inviting Hillary Clinton to a Sunday service and endorsing her there, either explicitly or implicitly. However, owing to the CC's non-homogeneous congregations, different history, among other things, this would not work.