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Despite the IRS lifting its ban on churches endorsing political candidates, I still won’t be. Because it wasn’t fear of ...
The rule was introduced by former President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1954 when he was serving as the U.S. Senate majority leader.
As if everyday life in these United States wasn’t politicized enough, your local house of worship could soon become a part of ...
A 2019 survey by Pew Research found that 76% of Americans and 70% of Christians say clergy should not endorse candidates from ...
Florida houses of worship can now endorse political candidates in some cases, an exception created by the IRS recently.
For more than 70 years, federal law has prohibited pastors, priests, rabbis, and imams from endorsing political candidates from the pulpit. Now the IRS is letting it be known that it has no intention ...
Comparing it to a family discussion, the Internal Revenue Service agreed on Monday that pastors and other religious leaders ...
That’s what the IRS now claims, in a reversal from Biden-era positions. Could this embolden critics of religious liberty?
The Johnson Amendment has been used to chill free speech in churches. The IRS finally changed the rule in a recent decision.
In 2024, two churches and a religious organization filed a lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), claiming that ...
In court filings July 7, the IRS has largely backed down on a decades-old rule that barred churches from engaging in ...
The IRS says pastors endorsing political candidates during services should not risk losing their tax-exempt status.