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In court filings Monday, the IRS has largely backed down on a decades-old rule that barred churches from engaging in ...
The decades-old Johnson Amendment does not apply to speech by houses of worship to its congregation through “customary channels of communication,” the IRS said in a July 7 court filing in the ...
Free speech doesn’t stop at the church door,” writes former Broward GOP executive director Lauren Cooley. The IRS’ recent ...
A 2019 survey by Pew Research found that 76% of Americans and 70% of Christians say clergy should not endorse candidates from ...
The Johnson Amendment is a 1954 amendment to the U.S. tax code that prohibits tax-exempt organizations, including churches, from endorsing or opposing political candidates.
"Our faith should inform our vote. Our votes shouldn’t drive our faith," says religious liberty expert about the IRS filing ...
The Internal Revenue Service says it will relax its longstanding ban on churches engaging in political campaign activity.
The Christian Post reached out to a couple of churches involved in Pulpit Freedom Sunday to get their perspectives on the IRS ...
A reinterpretation of a tax rule signals that houses of worship may now be able to endorse political candidates without losing tax-exempt status.
Notwithstanding the consent decree, it's an open question whether the US Supreme Court would go along with voiding the Johnson Amendment.
You want a service from the government, you pay for it. But taxation with conditions of behavior attached is worse than theft ...
The IRS will let churches endorse candidates from the pulpit, overthrowing six decades of nonprofit regulation. It's a move ...