"Leaders of the U.S. religious left, a rising force of opposition to Trump's hard-line stance on immigration and healthcare, said they were poised to benefit from the move, which lifts the risk of religious groups losing their tax-exempt status if they advocate for particular candidates.

"This is going to backfire on Trump," said the Rev. Jennifer Butler, chief executive of progressive policy group Faith in Public Life. "We are morally outraged at what is going on and we are appalled at the weaponisation of religion."

The group is planning to back congressional candidates who would oppose Trump in the 2018 midterm elections, and will now have more liberty to do so without jeopardizing the tax-exempt status of the churches its members represent.

"We're going to be mobilizing millions of voters to turn out at the polls and vote their values," Butler said." --
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa...

As I read the order it does nothing.
"... the Secretary of the Treasury shall ensure, to the extent permitted by law, that the Department of the Treasury does not take any adverse action against any individual, house of worship, or other religious organization on the basis that such individual or organization speaks or has spoken about moral or political issues from a religious perspective, where speech of similar character has, consistent with law, not ordinarily been treated as participation or intervention in a political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) a candidate for public office by the Department of the Treasury."

... where speech of similar character has ... not ordinarily been treated as participation or intervention in a political campaign ... "

Well, OK, what if such speech has been ordinarily treated as political intervention?

And what is a "religion" as the US DoD has recognized secular humanism as a religion?

Read the White House release.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-...