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Thanks to the ACLJ’s advocacy, pastors can now speak freely from the pulpit about political candidates without fear of IRS ...
As if everyday life in these United States wasn’t politicized enough, your local house of worship could soon become a part of ...
Comparing it to a family discussion, the Internal Revenue Service agreed on Monday that pastors and other religious leaders ...
The Johnson Amendment has been used to chill free speech in churches. The IRS finally changed the rule in a recent decision.
A reinterpretation of a tax rule signals that houses of worship may now be able to endorse political candidates without losing tax-exempt status.
I still won’t be. Because it wasn’t fear of jeopardizing my church’s tax exempt status that kept me quiet. It was fear of God ...
There’s only one known instance of a church losing its tax-exempt status because it violated the Johnson Amendment, but ...
That’s what the IRS now claims, in a reversal from Biden-era positions. Could this embolden critics of religious liberty?
Churches and other houses of worship can endorse political candidates without risking the loss of their tax-exempt status, ...
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 ...
The IRS said it no longer will enforce the Johnson Amendment that prevents churches and other nonprofits from endorsing ...
In court filings July 7, the IRS has largely backed down on a decades-old rule that barred churches from engaging in ...