Notwithstanding the consent decree, it's an open question whether the US Supreme Court would go along with voiding the ...

In 1995, the IRS retroactively revoked the church’s tax-exempt status, arguing the ad crossed the line into prohibited ...

A 2019 survey by Pew Research found that 76% of Americans and 70% of Christians say clergy should not endorse candidates from ...

To settle a case challenging the Johnson Amendment, the IRS has proposed to allow at least two churches to endorse candidates from the pulpit.

Free speech doesn’t stop at the church door,” writes former Broward GOP executive director Lauren Cooley. The IRS’ recent ...

You want a service from the government, you pay for it. But taxation with conditions of behavior attached is worse than theft. It is tyranny.

The rule was introduced by former President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1954 when he was serving as the U.S. Senate majority leader.

Although the IRS announced this month it is reversing precedent by allowing tax-exempt houses of worship to endorse political candidates, some Ohio faith organizations say their churches will remain ...

For more than 70 years, federal law has prohibited pastors, priests, rabbis, and imams from endorsing political candidates ...

A reinterpretation of a tax rule signals that houses of worship may now be able to endorse political candidates without losing tax-exempt status.

On Monday the IRS released a court filing reinterpreting the Johnson Amendment, which prohibits any tax-exempt nonprofit ...

Comparing it to a family discussion, the Internal Revenue Service agreed on Monday that pastors and other religious leaders can endorse political candidates to their congregation without threatening ...