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The Internal Revenue Services is reversing a long-standing policy and will now allow religious institutions to endorse ...
As if everyday life in these United States wasn’t politicized enough, your local house of worship could soon become a part of ...
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.
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 ...
In 2024, two churches and a religious organization filed a lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), claiming that ...
A reinterpretation of a tax rule signals that houses of worship may now be able to endorse political candidates without losing tax-exempt status.
In court filings July 7, the IRS has largely backed down on a decades-old rule that barred churches from engaging in ...
Comparing it to a family discussion, the Internal Revenue Service agreed on Monday that pastors and other religious leaders ...
Although seldom enforced, The Johnson Act has long been a source of tension between religious groups and federal regulators.
A 2019 survey by Pew Research found that 76% of Americans and 70% of Christians say clergy should not endorse candidates from ...