The guarantee of your freedom to practice your faith is one of the most precious things guaranteed to you in America. Unfortunately many of you seem to be unaware of some of the implications of this freedom or of the fact that it is equally guaranteed to others. Similarly you seem to have a bit of blind spot when it comes to what this guarantee prohibits you from doing. Let me help you out a bit.
First the basics. You do faith, you don't do politics. This is important. This is the price you pay for not having laws elevating another faith over yours or preventing you from worshipping the way you choose. This is why houses of worship aren't taxed as businesses, this is why you aren't classed as lobbyists and regulated accordingly.
You CAN say "We approve of X" or "We disapprove of X" on religious grounds. You will not always be agreed with. You CANNOT stop others from saying they think you're wrong, just as they can't stop you saying you think they are. You can say it freely from your pulpits or from any other platform provided by or to your church. You can't MAKE anyone else permit you to say it on their platform any more than they can insist on coming into your church and promoting their contrary views to your congregation.
We all understand that one of the pillars of any community of faith is a moral and ethical code of conduct. Your right, as the spiritual leaders of your community, to make determinations on what personal conduct is considered virtuous or sinful is unchallenged. The only limitations are imposed by the human rights of your congregants and the rights of those outside your community.
What this means is that you CAN prohibit your members from certain behaviour. Your prohibition on the behaviour does not grant your congregation immunity from penalty if they violate another persons rights by preventing THEM from indulging in it. You cannot claim religious discrimination if a member of your community refuses to perform a key function of their job on religious grounds and loses their position. It was your members choice to accept, or remain in, a position that required them to perform this function, even knowing it was contrary to their beliefs. Their employer is entitled to terminate their employment if they are refusing to do their job, provided all reasonable accommodations have been offered. For example: A patient presenting a legal prescription to a pharmacist has a right to have it promptly filled and the professional standards applicable to pharmacists require that they do so. Some pharmacies will allow a staff member to refer a prescription they object to on moral or religious grounds to another staff member and this is fine - provided that other staff member is immediately available. If they are not, that prescription must nonetheless be filled. Any other course says that one persons religious rights are more valuable than another's, violating the very principle of religious freedom. It would also potentially be a violation of terms of employment or even professional standards. You would not have a valid claim that your member was discriminated against on religious grounds were they to lose their position or their professional license.
This is doubly true for government officials and for elected representatives. You may make pronouncements on their personal conduct but you cannot interfere with their serving ALL the people, including those not of your faith. A representative may be personally a member of your community and in broad agreement with your religious views. If they violate those principles in their private life, by all means have at them all you wish. Their votes on any legislation, however, must be guided by the will of their constituents, not by you. You have no authority over those constituents not of your faith and therefore no authority over how a member of your faith represents them. Should you nonetheless attempt to exert your moral authority in this arena you will have ceased to act as a church and will be acting as a political entity. This can potentially jeopardise your protected status since you will have entered the secular domain and would now be potentially subject to its rules rather than the more permissive ones under which you currently operate.
The moment you expect your religious pronouncements to govern those not of your faith, either directly or indirectly, you may be certain that you have trespassed on grounds that are not protected by your free exercise of religion.
The very principles that prevent the laws from restricting your practice of religion also prevent your religion from restricting the operation of the law.
I trust things are now clearer for you, and you can proceed to further your ministry with a clearer understanding of how your religious freedoms, and those of others, are protected in America.