IS IT REALLY CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IF THE ODDS ARE REMOTE THAT YOU WILL BE ARRESTED? Oct. 7 was Pulpit Freedom Sunday and more than 1,500 Protestant preachers across the country purposely broke the law, hoping that at least one of them would be prosecuted. Their purpose is to get an IRS reg into court where they expect it will be struck down as an unconstitutional abridgement of the First Amendment. Usually it’s the Left doing this kind of thing, but here we have folks on the Right intentionally breaking the law.