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A reinterpretation of a tax rule signals that houses of worship may now be able to endorse political candidates without ...
The rule was introduced by former President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1954 when he was serving as the U.S. Senate majority leader.
The new post-Johnson Amendment regime is bound to be helpful to Republicans but unlikely to advance the cause of religion.
The policy change reverses a ban on endorsing or opposing candidates by religious organizations known as the Johnson ...
A decades-old rule keeping churches from endorsing politicians was struck down in court. Here's what to know about the Johnson Amendment.
"Ours is not a blue or red diocese, but a purple one, and above all, a Christian one." 2 News Oklahoma's Braden Bates shares ...
Two East Texas churches, Sand Springs Church in Athens and First Baptist Church Waskom, were among the plaintiffs in the ...
Comparing it to a family discussion, the Internal Revenue Service agreed on Monday that pastors and other religious leaders ...
If a judge approves a proposed court order, the IRS will soon allow churches to endorse candidates from the pulpit again ...
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 ...